On 12 Nov 2002, Carl Parrish wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 22:26, DARREN BROWN wrote:
> > The if=/dev/cdrom is the CD inside the CDROM containing the data I wish to copy.
> >
> > Then what is of=/target/dir/file.iso?
> > If I understand, file.iso is the data that is copied to this directory.
> > If so, can I then copy the data to a CD burner?  Like a USB burner? HP....
> >
>
> The only think I'm a bit unclear of here is if I'd need to then run
> mkisofs on file.iso
>

	If you're using dd with the cdrom as your source, no. You're
duplication the contents, which are already in iso format. mkisofs is for
making an ISO from a file structure that *isn't* in ISO9660 format. My
example before of using mkisofs on the mounted file system, would work for
replication of the iso, since you're just creating a new one from a
mounted file system, but as has been pointed out, won't maintain
boot sectors and the like.

- billn