Well, if you're lucky it'll only be a few sectors too long. Use the length of the image you've got minus 2K. Test and repeat. You might want to look at the image with a hex editor for clues.
P. On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 07:05:33PM -0500, Debian User wrote: > What if you don't know the size, say, you are trying to burn someone's > cd to have a copy for yourself. > Peter Horton wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 11:49:10AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > Hi Steve, hi all. Tried > > > dd if=/dev/scd0 of=d3.iso > > > with my deb official cd 3 (potato rev2). > > > md5sum d3.iso gives not the supposed value. > > > When I do it from xcdroast I get the right md5sum. > > > Where is the problem? Are you sure that there no options left out > > > somewhere? > > > > The ISO image read of the CD is probably a sector or two > > too long. If you know the correct size then you can just do > > > > dd if=/dev/scd0 of=d3.iso bs=2k count=<file length / 2048> -- P. Horton Software Engineer http://www.colonel-panic.com Linux 2.4.0
