Comments on: Linux creating CD-ROM ISO image

By: leroy

leroy — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:44:33 +0000

I have a Dual booted pc (Linux/XP) I would like to take the Windows XP partition and create an ISO for a VM. Is it possible? I expect when XP wakes up in a VM environment there might be a few problems with hardware recognition but that can be addressed later.

By: Adso

Adso — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:33:37 +0000

It works, thanks!

By: José Roberto

José Roberto — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:57:16 +0000

I didn’t know i could do this directly :P

I used to do:
dd if=/dev/cdrom1 of=./image.img
img2iso image.img image.iso

Thank you! :D

By: Benjamin M. Strozykowski

Benjamin M. Strozykowski — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:52:45 +0000

This just made my day, thank you. For some reason, Brasero wouldn’t copy the cd, but dd did it without error.

Thank you very much!

By: iceblox

iceblox — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:52:51 +0000

You better add some blocksize parameter using bs=$something or it will take quite a while…

By: Aatch

Aatch — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:09:47 +0000

This has cemented my love of *nix. I already knew that you could mount disk images using mount, but the using of dd to make a disk image. That was the best bit. I have the need to make alot of images, for various reasons. And its faster than on windows. (In my experience anyway).