From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EmqSU-0002Sw-WB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:35:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBFAYAnu030593; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:34:10 GMT Received: from odin.mimer.no (ns.mimer.no [213.184.200.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBFATu0b005899 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:29:56 GMT Received: from basilikum.skogtun.org (dsl148-162.adsl.no [83.243.148.162] (may be forged)) by odin.mimer.no (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id jBFATqt7025725 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:29:52 +0100 From: Harald Arnesen To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: dd isos References: <43a050cb.7cdd13b4@vuk.kjorling.com> <200512141236.50799.bss03@volumehost.com> <20051215012043.3abe57b4@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:29:55 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20051215012043.3abe57b4@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (Neil Bothwick's message of "Thu, 15 Dec 2005 01:20:43 +0000") Message-ID: <87irtqr6u4.fsf@basilikum.skogtun.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: dc7b34d7-f294-4ba8-9c9c-345201873127 X-Archives-Hash: 150c9fcfdfb8c7e1eb218da6d4aa8de5 Neil Bothwick writes: > On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:36:50 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > >> I've read that dd actually has problems reading from cdroms and isos >> produced with something like dd if=/dev/cdrom of=my.iso conv=noerror >> would be invalid. Can anyone confirm / deny, preferably with some sort >> of reference or test. > > I've never tried with conv=noerror, but dd has worked fine for me on > several occasions when extracting ISO images from data CDs and DVDs. > > I don't use it any more because it is slow, cp and cat give the same > result and are faster. dd is not slower than cp/cat if you increase the block size from the default 512 bytes. -- Hilsen Harald. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list