[geeks] solaris 2.5.1/ppc cd found

[David Cantrell]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:07:16PM -0400, s at avoidant.org wrote:
> David Cantrell wrote:
> > Under OS X, just dd if=/dev/whatever of=~/foo.iso *should* work.
> 
> Should it? Don't you have to mkisofs? Or am I underestimating the power
> of dd?

mkisofs is for creating an ISO image from a bunch of files.  We already
have a 'file' (/dev/whatever) which contains an ISO image, so we just
need to copy it.  You don't use cp because cp'ing devices is generally
not going to do what you want.

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