creating iso images from cd-rom drive

[venkman]

I've got a strange problem in that my cd-writer in my main computer has started acting flaky. Basically it reads certain cds fine (like my redhat distro cds I burned on the same drive), but it completely does not recognize my Windows XP cd nor my Office XP Cd. I usually run windows under vmware in linux, so it's not a big deal that the cds aren't recognized by the drive, as long as I have isos for them instead (vmware can treat iso images as regular cds). I own a couple of other hand-me-down older pcs, all of which have fully functional cd-rom drives that recognize the 2 microsoft disks. I'd like to copy these disks to iso images using my other pcs (and then ftp them to my main pc), but everytime I try that cdrecord gives me problems saying ther is no scsi devices (cdrecord -scanbus).

To make a long story short ("Too late!&quot, how do you make an iso image from a bootable cd in a cd-rom drive (not a cd-burner)? I'm using redhat 7.3 and 6.2 on the older pcs. I suspect there is a kernel option I have to change that redhat did not put in because it knew I didn't have a cd-burner. Is this the case, and if so, what kernel option is that?

Thanks,
Venkman

 

[jsauce]

pop the disk in the cdrom drive and type:

su -c "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cdrom.iso"

Make sure that the disk is not mounted before doing this.
If it automounts, unmount it first. John D. Saucier
jsauce@magicguild.com
Certified Technician
Network Administrator