Re: Obtaining a CD image

[Seth Arnold <sarnold@willamette.edu>]

* Alexander Frolkin <alexander@frolkin.demon.co.uk> [001102 13:20]:
> dd if=/dev/xxx of=cd_image
> 
> which works fine. Last time I tried this under OpenBSD (with xxx replaced by
> cd0c), it didn't stop when it got past the end of the CD - the output grew
> to over 1Gb.

If it were me, the next thing I would try would be using
bs=${1024*1024} and count=640 (or whatever your particular CD is.) Check
out dd(1) for more information, and possible solutions.

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