iso file from a cd

[Jeff Vian]

On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 03:57 +0530, arora.himanshu at gmail.com wrote:
> I've already tried this. This doesn't work. Even mkisofs is not able
> to recognize the cd. But gnome-cd is able to play the songs well. The
> cd seems to have some other format, I think all the song cds(original
> one) have the same format(might be I'm wrong). If any one could help I
> would be happy. 
> 
> Himanshu
> 
If I am understanding this correctly, the cd seems to be an audio CD so
the tracks would be in cdda format.
You can copy those, but AFAIK you cannot make an iso image of one since
it is not a true filesystem.


> On 10/15/05, Justin Willmert <justin at jdjlab.com> wrote:
>         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
>         >
>         
>         You should be able to do this:
>                 dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/file.iso 
>         
>         You can probably speed up the copying with the bs option, but
>         I don't
>         use this very often, so I'm a bit rusty, so I'd suggest you
>         read up dd's
>         man file.
>         
>         You may come up with problems since you can't mount the cd,
>         but that is 
>         only a wild guess, so...
>         
>         Hope this helps you,
>         Justin Willmert
>         
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