Copy a CD with cdrecord and a single burner

[David Fletcher]

On Saturday 26 August 2006 00:01, Paul Smith wrote:
> Thanks, David and Chris, but
>
> $ dd if=/dev/hdf of=iso1.iso
> dd: reading `/dev/hdf': Input/output error
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.009431 seconds, 0.0 kB/s
> $
>
> Paul

OK Paul, what I just tried is, using FC5 with KDE,

1) Put a data CD in the drive.
2) When Fedora asks what to do, just click OK to let it mount the CD and open 
it in a window.
3) Look to see what it mounts it as. Mine said media:/hda (because my hard 
drive is SATA the CD gets hda)
4) Close the window and right-click Unmount on the icon
5) dd if=/dev/hda of=/path/to/my/file.iso replacing hda with whatever yours 
mounted as.
6) I've got a 627MB file on my hard drive.
7) Hope that helps.
8) Time for bed!

Dave


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