SUMMARY: Creating ISO image from CD on SPARC?

From: Peter Stokes (peter@ashlyn.co.uk)
Date: Tue Mar 30 2004 - 03:36:36 EST

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Hi

Thanks to the many who suggested mkisofs, which I guess in principle
will work, but does not take into account the boot etc of a Solaris boot
CD. Also readcd was suggested for non Solaris CD (see below) as straight
copy.

Thanks also to Casper Dick who confirmed my thoughts that Solaris unlike
Linux looks at the vtoc and there is no 'whole disk' entry in /dev/rdsk
etc.

It is strange that cdrw can do this, but cannot output to file (it
creates a hidden tmp file which is not accessible)

So I guess it is back to my Windows or Linux system, with Linux dd works
fine for Solaris bootable CD's and Windows has various CD apps which
work.

A few other replies also included ref's as follows

http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/mount-cdrom.html

You want cdrtools. I believe this is its home page:

   
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html

I suggest downloading http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0301/BuildBoot.pdf

While this focuses on how to build a boot CD, it also does give great
insight in how to go about creating CD's on Solaris and what works.

For a'simple' CD (no Solaris CD) try

readcd f=[imagename] dev=scsibus,target,lun

For Solaris CDs (different Filesystem) look at:
http://www.lka.ch/projects/solcdburn/solcdburn.html
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/man/README/README.sparcboot

Thanks

Peter

On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 12:29, Peter Stokes wrote:
> Hi All
>
> What is the preferred method for creating an iso image on disk from a
> data CD?
>
> I have tried dd with /dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s2 etc, but this depends on the
> vtoc on the CD.
>
> I can copy with cdrw, but not create an image file.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Peter
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