[clug-talk] freedom toaster

[Ian Bruseker]

On 5/31/06, Brad Camroux <bgcamroux at shaw.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 04:03:43PM -0600, Mitchell Brown wrote:
> >    If you guys need any help be sure to let me know - - perhaps that
> >    could be the subject for the next meeting ;)
> >    Haha.
> >    Oh, about loading it up -- how do you make an ISO from a CD that you
> >    already have burned.
> >    I was thinking if we get this done everyone can just bring in a copy
> >    of ________, stick it in and type something like "mkiso" (lol i made
> >    that up) and boom. Presto!
> >
>
> Not too far off... I believe the command is mkisofs, with a few command line
> arguments.
>
Isn't mkisofs for making ISO files from a bunch of files on your hard
drive?  For a CD that's already on a physical CD I just use dd.  I
dunno if it's the right way, but it works.

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=myfile.iso

That easy.  :-)

Ian