[geeks] Anyone know...

[David Cantrell]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:33:11PM -0700, David Passmore wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 02:27:41AM -0400, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
> > 
> > Doesn't mkisofs create a *new* ISO?  I want to make an ISO image of a CD.
> 
> dd will work.

No it won't.

Not if you have multiple tracks on the disk which include formats your OS
doesn't understand, or if you have both data and audio tracks.  I used to
use dd, but then I failed to make backups <cough> of BeOS too many times.

readcd is your friend.

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