Bug 31990

Summary: new FAQ: imaging a data CD
Product: Documentation Reporter: Michael W Lucas <mwlucas>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description Michael W Lucas 2001-11-14 19:50:01 UTC 
"How do I copy a data CD?"
-questions had many similar responses, I amalgamated them into this.

How-To-Repeat: 
read -questions.
Comment 1 John Baldwin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-11-14 19:59:09 UTC 
On 14-Nov-01 mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org wrote:
> +         <answer>
> +           <para>If you want to make a bit-by-bit copy of a CD (so you
> +             can, for example, duplicate it with a CD burner), use
> +             &man.dd.1;.  The example given here assumes that you have
> +             a IDE CDROM device that shows up as
> +             <devicename>acd0</devicename>.  If you have a SCSI CD
> +             drive, you will want to substitute the correct device
> +             name.</para>
> + 
> +           <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>dd if=/dev/cdrom
> +             of=file.iso bs=2048</userinput></screen>

Uh, shouldn't that be /dev/acd0 according to the previous paragraph?

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Comment 2 Michael W Lucas 2001-11-14 20:02:01 UTC 
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:59:09AM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
> Uh, shouldn't that be /dev/acd0 according to the previous paragraph?

But the example worked on my system... ;)

Mea culpa.  Correction attached.




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Michael Lucas
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Comment 3 chern freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-11-17 01:31:26 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Added a bit more to your entry and committed it, Thanks!