Re: mkisofs and copying a cd to disk

[Charles Galpin <cgalpin lighthouse-software com>]

ok, I just want to mount them with the loopback device. If I can find it
I'll give it a try.

thanks
charles

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Peter Monta wrote:

> > [ isosize ]
> 
> Sorry to reply to my own message, but another reason
> to use isosize is that some (most?) CD-ROMs are padded
> with a few sectors of zeros at the end.  You want
> the copied image to be the same size as the original
> ISO9660 filesystem (so that md5sum will turn out
> right, for example).   A plain dd would preserve this
> unwanted padding.