Subject: Re: Capturing a CD image
To: Stephen Borrill <netbsd@precedence.co.uk>
From: <alex@yuriev.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/06/2000 18:00:28
> 
> What is the best way to capture an ISO image from a CD-ROM. Under Linux it
> is as simple as the equivalent of cat /dev/cd0a > image. Under NetBSD
> (i386 and arm32), this just keeps going until it fills up the whole disc!
> 
> I guess I could read the size by looking at the fictitious disklabel od
> the CD-ROM and then setting parameters to dd appropriately. Is this the
> best way?

Linux has a utility called isosize which can extract that information from a
raw file/device :)

Alex