[CentOS] iso creation with dd
nate
centos at linuxpowered.net
Mon May 11 23:39:35 UTC 2009
Al Sparks wrote:
>
> I placed a CD in a drive.
> I ran
> sudo dd sudo dd if=/dev/cdrom of=HMI_B_Image_File_4-23-09_disk_1.iso
>
> It completed. I then transferred the ISO file to an XP machine, use
> Sonic to burn the ISO file to another CD, and there was a file missing
> (the largest) in the burned CD.
>
> Seems like the data got transferred through the dd, but not a file
> name. What might I be doing wrong?
Though it may work, I'd never use dd to make an ISO image, try
mkisofs, see if you have better luck with that.
And if you want a block for block copy I'd use cdrdao (don't think
this is included in standard CentOS distribution).
nate
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