Re: [SLUG] Mking copy of the borg's stuff

[John Ferlito <johnf@nospam.inodes.org>]

On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 06:06:39PM +1000, jasonb@nospam.ce.com.au wrote:
> 
> 
> The easiest way (I use this and it works) is to:
> 
> 1. Put the CD to be duped into the drive.
> 
> 2. Make an image:
> 
> 	dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/opt/cd.img bs=8092
> 
> This will spit a couple of errors at the end of the CD - but it doesn't
> matter.  From here you can write the image to another CD using CDRecord or
> similar, or mount it via the loopback interface:
> 
> 
> 	losetup /dev/loop0 /opt/cd.img
> 	mount -t iso9660 /dev/loop0 /mnt/cdrom

	Quick tip instead of doing the two commands above you can do it in one go like this

	mount -t iso9660 -o loop /opt/cd.img /mnt/cdrom

then just

	umount /mnt/cdrom
> 
> Note - remember to remove the loopback interface when it is not required:
> 
> 	umount /mnt/cdrom
> 	losetup -d /dev/loop0
> 
> Cheers
> Jason.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 29 May 2000, Terry Collins wrote:
> 
> > I need to make a copy of win98 CD for offsite backup purposes.
> > 
> > Is this possible under linux?
> > 
> > Is it as simple as including -I and -J options of mkisofs?
> > 
> > Still complains about ~sbs, ~anaimations, ~help, ~images ~source
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