[mdlug] Copying cdroms from command line

[Carl T. Miller]

Mary, I'm still waiting for you to send the URL for that wiki
thing you mentioned at the meeting...

We also talked about how to copy a cdrom to an iso file.  This
is good because you can then burn multiple copies without needing
to swap disks in and out.  Note that your mount point or device
name may be different.  My /etc/fstab shows /media/cdrom and
/dev/cdrom.

mount /media/cdrom
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=myfile.iso

To test that it's a good image:

mkdir -p /media/iso
mount -o loop myfile.iso /media/iso
ls -AR /media/iso | more
umount /media/iso

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