Ubuntu Linux and the K3b disk copier.

[Rick Harris]

On Thursday 07 December 2006 16:21, Dale wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For starters i don't use K3b.
>
> But you can always use dd to create dvd iso, all you have to do is in
> a terminal type "dd if=/dev/hdc of=/your/home/dir/filename.iso"  then
> burn the iso off to disk using K3b or gnomebaker

Also, when using 'dd', if you get an error similar to...

dd: reading `/dev/dvd': Input/output error
49120+0 records in
49120+0 records out
25149440 bytes (25 MB) copied, 12.0106 seconds, 2.1 MB/s

...then it's probably CSS encrypted.

You'll need to initialise the DVD with libdvdread's 'filestat' first and set 
the blocksize to make it play nice.

filestat /dev/dvd && dd if=/dev/dvd of=my_dvd.iso bs=2048


Rick