possible to make 1:1 dupliactes of cd's

AM1SHFURN1TURE · 06-19-2005, 05:56 PM

I was just wondering if there was any way to make an exact duplicate of a CD via CD drive and have that duplicate be made onto a CD R drive. I know you could make an iso using various tools like mkisofs, and then burn it. But that would involve putting and iso on the hard disk first, and it would not be bootable media (i think). For example , I want to copy a Linux distro cd exactly so that the copy will still be bootable and I would like to do this without putting anything on the hard disk.

nvm · 06-19-2005, 06:00 PM

Rather than writing the output of mkisofs to the harddrive, you can pipe it directly to cdrecord. I think the term, if want to google for more information, is 'on the fly' cd recording.

For example,

mkisofs -R /path/to/cd | cdrecord speed=2 -vv -eject dev=1,0,0 -

AM1SHFURN1TURE · 06-19-2005, 06:22 PM

woa...I didn't know you could use a pipe like THAT, I'll look into that thanks.