copying my live cd?

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: copying my live cd?
started by: webeye

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Posted by webeye on Sep. 15 2008,03:11

I did search and the only thing that came up was for usbs and floppy disks. Can it be done where it will work and then I could still have a backup cd in case of messing up remastering my cd.

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Posted by webeye on Sep. 15 2008,03:55

This what I have and I do have lots of CD-R disks but have no place with instructions.

dsl@box:~$ cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a19 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright © 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
scsibus0:
       0,0,0     0) 'HL-DT-ST' 'CD-RW GCE-8400B ' '1.06' Removable CD-ROM
       0,1,0     1) 'JLMS    ' 'DVD-ROM LTD-166S' 'DPS2' Removable CD-ROM
       0,2,0     2) *
       0,3,0     3) *
       0,4,0     4) *
       0,5,0     5) *
       0,6,0     6) *
       0,7,0     7) *
dsl@box:~$

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Posted by curaga on Sep. 15 2008,14:21

Not exactly sure what you want?

Copying a cd though is extremely easy, just go to a place with enough space (hd?), then
dd if=/dev/hdX of=cdimage.iso
would copy the cd in drive hdX to an iso image. You can then burn this iso image to another cd.


Edit. I think I get you now. When you create a remaster, it does not overwrite your current CD (unless it's a cdrw and booted toram), so there'd be no need to make a copy.

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Posted by webeye on Sep. 16 2008,00:59

Quote (curaga @ Sep. 15 2008,10:21)

I think I get you now. When you create a remaster, it does not overwrite your current CD (unless it's a cdrw and booted toram), so there'd be no need to make a copy.

Thank you, I did not know that.

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