Re: [expert] burning CDs

[John Aldrich]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Question:
> > I have had problems copying Mandrake 5.3 with dd (to a .iso file).  It
> > seems to get to the end and then get data errors.  Is there something at
> > the end of the CD that prevents this sort of copying?
> 
> How do you know the exact size to specify to dd ????
> You can't use, say, df, because it will not know about TOC and such,
> so how can you know _exactly_ ???
> 
You don't have to know the exact size for creating the ISO
file. You're just making a sector-by-sector /
track-by-track copy of the CD to a file.
        John