actually, cat /dev/cd0d > whatever.iso works quite nicely as well

                --Shawn
----- Original Message -----
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com>
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
Cc: Peter Fairbrother <peter.fairbrother@ntlworld.com>;
<netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: dd on CDROM


> David Brownlee said:
>
> > Does 'dd if=/dev/cd0d' (replace d with c for various platforms)
> > work?
>
> Yes, it is the answer to the question: How do you extract an .iso file
> from a CD? :-)
>
> --
> Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  www.rmkhome.com
>