[geeks] dd command for copying a cd

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 05:36:08PM -0600, Jonathan Eisch wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I want to use dd to make an image file of a cd.  What's the command that 
> I want to use?

I'm am under the impression that while this works for creating iso files,
it is inferior to other methods, like readcd.  

Otherwise, something like dd if=/dev/sda0 of=t.iso  with a blocksize of either
2k or 512bytes should work.

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Joshua D. Boyd