On 06/25/2012 07:57 AM, Steven Susbauer wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Richard C. Steffens > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 06/22/2012 05:53 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote: >>> Is it possible to create an ISO of a drive in a USB enclosure? >> Thanks for your reply, Dale. I replied to it, but it didn't make it to >> the list. Briefly, here's what I did: >> >> I put the likely failing drive into my USB enclosure and powered it up. >> I ran mount to see what device Ubuntu decided it was, which was >> /dev/sdb1. Then I did the following: >> >> sudo umount /dev/sdb1. >> sudo dd if=/dev/sdb1 bs 512 >cher.iso >> >> I swapped out the laptop sized drives and ran: >> >> sudo dd if=cher.iso bs=512 of=/dev/sdb1 > This did not actually create an iso, unless your drive was already > formatted as iso9660. The filename you used here could have been > anything, as it was only making a disk image (dd to a file will always > make a disk image of the on disk format). Works for your situation, it > just isn't an actual iso.
Thanks for the clarification. Someday I may want to create a real iso and would be puzzled as to why it wasn't working. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
