Re: [SLUG] problems with creating backups

From: William Coulter (wrcoulter30@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Dec 06 2002 - 12:14:50 EST


I do have a working rh8 right now but I have to have the old drive with w2k on it because of
school right now. In another week or two, I will be on rh8 duel booting with w2k. I will save
this for later.

William

--- "R.G. Mayhue" <r.g.mayhue@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 05 December 2002 07:22 pm, you wrote:
> >
> Do you have the CDRW drive working in Linux? If so you can do:
>
> # dd if=/dev/scd0 of=/path-to-iso
>
> # cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 /path-to-iso
>
> Substitute the correct device (if=/dev/???) for your CDRW in the dd
> command and change the /path-to-iso to whatever you want the filename
> to be. Possibly redhat-xx_disc-x.iso.
>
> To find the correct SCSI device for cdrecord do:
>
> # cdrecord --scanbus
>
> Look for your CDRW in the resulting output and change the 0,0,0 to
> whatever it may be.
>
> Also change the speed=2 to whatever the CDRW's burning speed.
>
> That should do the trick.
>

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