Comments on: Ubuntu: How To Create an ISO Image from a CD or DVD

By: MBD

MBD — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:11:38 +0000

You may also use K3b, which is the easiest option in Kubuntu 11.10

By: Antonis Koursoumis

Antonis Koursoumis — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:08:00 +0000

Awesome, Fast! Creating it now! Thanks mate!

By: tiny122

tiny122 — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 08:37:00 +0000

Thats the Ubuntu way !!! I like..

Worked a treat.

By: Bkmfs

Bkmfs — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 06:26:00 +0000

Vanguy, you are not human.

By: Stefan Ghelbere

Stefan Ghelbere — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:08:00 +0000

Will just “fly over” your screen (stdout). No file will be created on HDD.

By: FORMERxZOMBIE

FORMERxZOMBIE — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:30:00 +0000

If I only type: cat /dev/scd0
Where will the file reside?

Thanx in advance!
-Michel Merx.

By: Jgps32327

Jgps32327 — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:44:00 +0000

i’ve tried these commands but it’ll only copy 1/4 of the software.. how do i get the full software to copy?

By: Vanguy1977

Vanguy1977 — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 04:22:00 +0000

Jli, if you did that, you’d be determining which option is more popular, not necessarily which is more “human”.

A lot of websites for Windows provide command-line solutions for things that could also be accomplished via a GUI. Sometimes it’s quicker and sometimes it’s a matter of how much things change from one OS version to another.

By: Indie

Indie — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 19:58:00 +0000

I tried using dd to create an ISO of a SLES11 DVD but instead of creating a 3GB image it created a 4.4GB iso – a full DVD’s worth with all unneeded rubbish. I found a way around this by using isoinfo to get the actual DVD iso size and only copy the required data.

isoinfo -d -i /dev/dvd

from the output you want the ‘Volume size’ and ‘Logical block size’ which is generally 2048. Then use dd to copy it, i.e.

dd if=/dev/dvd of=/local/dvd.iso bs=${logical_block_size} count=${volume_size} &

note the ‘&’ at the end to background the process. You can then use

pkill -USR1 dd

to see how much has been copied.

By: Buy Blank CD

Buy Blank CD — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 06:54:00 +0000

Great tip!