more dd

[Cyberclops]

I could be wrong, but I believe this would put an image of a CD on your
HD that could.  then act as a CD in the CD rom drive.  Is that correct?
Or am I way off base.

andersons001 at hawaii.rr.com wrote:
> 
> Reference the dd command to copy a .img file to a floppy. The bs argument specifies
> the blocksize. (bs=n Sets both input and output block size). You need not specify
> the block size. Unlike some OSs, the *nixes offer many ways to do one task.
> So you may use cp or dd to make a copy of a floppy.
> 
> Now try this:
> mkdir /mnt/cdimage
> dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/tmp/mycd.iso
> mount /tmp/mycd.iso /mnt/cdimage -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0,blocksize=2048
> 
> You do not need any special software to make a CD image.  All you need is "dd".
>  Now after running dd, go ahead and remove the CD.  Then run the mount command.
>  You have a complete replica of the CD in /mnt/cdimage. Now you can have a virtual
> CD jukebox!!!
> 
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