Re: [ILUG] disk copying ?

From: Wesley Darlington (wesley at domain blackstar.co.uk)
Date: Thu 20 Jul 2000 - 11:44:04 IST


Hi,

On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 07:09:38PM +0100, John P. Looney (Kate) wrote:
> Is there a handy way of copying a bootable CD ? Something like "cp
> /dev/hdc /dev/sg0" or something...

I use dd for this. It hasn't let me down yet...

    dd if=/dev/hdc of=/place_where_to_put_cd_images/image.img

...and then I burn some copies of it. The bootable-ness of a cd
is seemingly unaffected by this operation. :-)

All the best,
Wesley.



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