[wplug] Re: Q: how to make image copy of disc to CD/DVD?

Don Shepherd dlshepherd at adelphia.net
Thu Jan 13 17:05:37 EST 2005


I want a disc image.  I want to be able to restore the entire bootable 
disc, after I screw it up!

I will try parted.


Mike Sussman wrote:

>>Message: 11
>>Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:06:20 -0500
>>From: Don Shepherd <dlshepherd at adelphia.net>
>>Subject: [wplug] Q: how to make image copy of disc to CD/DVD?
>>To: wplug at wplug.org
>>Message-ID: <41E6805C.7040509 at adelphia.net>
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>>I want to make an image copy of my disc to CD/DVD.  I need to save my 
>>work for later re-use.  I would rather not re-do all of the work. 
>>
>>I have a CD/DVD burner attached via USB.  What tools might I use to do this?
>>
>>My environment is RHEL WS 3.0 on a laptop.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
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>
>Don, your question is not so clear.  Do you want to save YOUR WORK
>or do you want to save EVERYTHING ON THE DISK?  It you only want to
>save your work, just write a CD-ROM with your files on it.  You
>can use mkisofs and cdrecord for this, or there are other tools.
>If you want to save everything, gnu parted is a nice tool  It will
>make a copy of a disk partition to a file and then you can save the
>file on a CD-ROM.  Of course, you cannot put the file on the partition
>you are imaging, so if you have no other place to put it you are stuck.
>I have had good luck restoring such partitions.  This is something like
>Norton Ghost for MicroSoft.
>
>good luck.
>  
>

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