Hi John, thank you for your patience. The commands you supplied work - they copy the _content_ of a cdrom to an iso which is then burned. But they do not make a 1:1 copy, the cd that is created with your commands is not bootable but the original cd was. I may have missed a command line option in mkisofs or cdrecord to swich this on.
I have found another (easier) way of copying a cd (after 6 cds): koncd has an option to copy a cd (this uses readcd - you have to add the user to the group cdwriter) which preserves all the content of the original (bootability, label, format...) I also tried gcombust which has an option to read an iso from cd. This also makes a 1:1 copy. I am sure these commands (readcd and the guis) use mkisofs themselves but they obviously query all the different options a cd can have and set cdrecord accordingly. xcdroast when making an iso from a mounted cdrom also does not preserve the label and bootability. The copy cd option seems broken on my computer. The version is up to date. I don't see a reason to go further into this since there is a way to do what I want. So the only way I found to easily copy a cd is with readcd (and koncd) and with gcombust. If I made a crucial mistake then tell me so that I don't spread false information. Patrik > > WRITE AS TWO PART OPERATION > =========================== > > cd /<directory of your choosing> > > mkisofs -r -J -v -o temp.iso /mnt/cdrom/<filetobe copied> > > cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,1,0 -pad -data -eject -ignsize temp.iso > > > > WRITE ON THE FLY MISOFS | CDRECORD > ================================== > change directory to sources, > > > > mkisofs -r -J -v <filetobecopied> | cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,1,0 -data > -pad -eject -ignsize - > > John
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