Comments on: Linux creating CD-ROM ISO image

By: OM PRAKASH SINGH

OM PRAKASH SINGH — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:04:38 +0000

Hello friends
I need your help in installing redhat linux5 on my laptop compaq presario cq40 having windows vista operating system. when I am installing linux then it is not recognizing my partition and dvdram drive asking for the location of linux image. I have formated one partition with ext3 but it is not seen by windows. how ever when loading linux it detects my hard disk but not finding image. I don’t know how to load the image of linux in cd from windows vista operating system. if you can help me in this regard then I will remain thankful to you.
thanks
OP Singh

By: satish

satish — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 01:44:24 +0000

Thanks

By: DeepThnker

DeepThnker — Sat, 14 May 2011 16:38:34 +0000

Thanks!
Iam using fedora 14 and all the gui programs are buggy, crashing and sometimes they have problems with certain CDs,but
dd… and the other command line tools.. they never leaves me in the lurch!

By: Donny

Donny — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:55:53 +0000

Thank You
its great to work in the terminal
i love Linux

By: Maikel B

Maikel B — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:19:24 +0000

You just made my day :)

Thnx

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 22:31:36 +0000

Using this method is reading the bits straight from the device. If it is mounted, then the device will be “in use” as it is already mounted to another folder. You could still use dd to make an image of the mounted location (i.e., /media/mounteddisk) but then it would be like burning a folder to disk instead of getting the exact formatting of a CD.

By: Vikram

Vikram — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 08:56:08 +0000

Why is it necessary to unmount the CD-ROM first?

By: Rafael

Rafael — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:09:54 +0000

It works fine. Thanks.

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).