>From: Danilo Godec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Mike R. Cannon wrote:
>> I have a cdrom that I am trying to copy. It is a bootable cdrom. I can
>> make a copy of it, but I can't boot off of it. I am assuming that I
>> need to do something different in the mkisofs command. I even tried to
>> to point the iso creation process at /dev/hda, but that did not work
>> either.
>Why do you use mkisofs if you're just copying a cdrom?
>I usually use 'dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/tmp/filename.iso' to create an ISO
>image from the original cdrom and then 'cdrecord /tmp/filename.iso' to
>burn a new cdrom from that image.
>This method works well for data only and has no problems with bootable
>cdroms.
In general, it does _not_ work to copy a bootable CD using "dd".
If you read README.copy you know that you should use "readcd" instead.
J�rg
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