iso file from a cd

[Jeff Vian]

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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