iso file from a cd

[Ian MacGregor]

I have found this to work quite well:
Make an ISO file from a directory of files:

   mkisofs -o /desired/path/to/filename.iso -R /path/to/source/dir

Ian MacGregor

Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 03:40 +0530, arora.himanshu at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>        I want to create an iso file of a CD in linux. The use of the
>>command cat /dev/cdrom > file.iso is not woriking nither I am able to
>>mount the CD.  It is giving Input/Output error. But gnome-cd is able
>>to play the cd. How should I do this ? 
>>
>>Himanshu
> 
> I would first suggest using k3b to create an image file.
> 
> Alternatively you can use dd to create the iso.
>     "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=filename.iso"  would work but likely would be
> faster if you added a "bs=16384" or similar option to speed the reading.
>     "dd bs=16384 if=/dev/cdrom of=filename.iso"
> 
> 
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