[CS-FSLUG] Microsoft CDs

Steve McCracken smccrack at hcjb.org.ec
Thu Aug 11 09:26:14 CDT 2005


David Aikema wrote:
> What happens if you drop to the command line on your linux box and
> execute "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~home/aoe2.iso"? (where /dev/cdrom is the
> device file for your cd-rom or cd-writer containing the AOE2 disc)

This is one of the easiest ideas to test.  It does a direct read of the 
raw cd.  I would add that you would want to do an md5sum on both the 
/dev/cdrom or /dev/hdc or whatever your cd is and the AOE2.iso file to 
compare them to see how well the copy went.




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