[ale] ISO image from a mounted CDROM

james at sumners.ath.cx james at sumners.ath.cx
Wed Dec 15 16:56:16 EST 2004


You, sir, have a weird version of dd. dd works at the device level and
should not be able to read a device that is busy.

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:22:06PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> Allan Neal wrote:
> >It will not work with the device mounted.  It will fail and report that the
> >device is busy.
> 
> Hmmm, did you try it?  Works for me.
> 
> -- 
> Until later, Geoffrey

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