The problem with search engines is that if you aren’t knowledgable on the subject, you don’t know which questions to ask, or how to phrase them. Chicken and Egg.
Case in point, one possibility to accomplish what you want: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/path/to/dvdN.iso dd will read bits off the cdrom (dvd) and write them to the file you specifiy. I used duckduckgo, but my search query was: how to create iso from dvd linux > On Aug 4, 2015, at 7:22 AM, Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Google searches can have a lot in common with turning 1000 > monkeys loose on 2000 typewriters expecting _The Decline and Fall > of the Roman Empire_. > > Asking questions on fora can get bogged down in minutia (e.g. > "when up to #### in alligators it's difficult to remember swamp > draining is goal"). > > Case in point: > My starting point is complete DVD sets of Debian 6, 7, and 8. > Optimizing for clock time: > A. copy each version to individual directory on "flash drive" > and/or "hard drive" > such that resulting structure will be /debianN/dvd1.iso ... > /debianN/dvdM.iso > B. create a local repository of each version in its own partition > > For my unique case, I have adequate if imperfect solution(s). > > I suspect that "How to research Linux questions" will have much > in common with various articles on "asking good questions on > Usenet". If fact this might be an expansion the most common #1 > point under "how to ask ..." --> "Do your homework." > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Louis Kowolowski [email protected] Cryptomonkeys: http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/ Making life more interesting for people since 1977 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
