how to create an iso image of a DVD?

[stephen peng]

guys,
I want a copy of an set of OE discs, but I don't have a DVD-rom in my laptop, my idea is mount those discs on an rx3600 box and create iso images, copy the iso files to my laptop and burn them to dvds otherwhere.
but i don't know how to accomplish it, could any one offer me some help?

regards
Stephen

[Andrew Rutter · Accepted solution]

hi,

you can do this with ignite make_media_install commands

http://docstore.mik.ua/manuals/hp-ux/en/5992-5309/ch14s03.html

and see

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/whats-the-syntax-to-create-iso-image-from-hp-ux-bootable-DVD/m-p/4197097#M324246

if you have a dvdrw in your rx3600 you could copy them with the dvdrw tools probably

https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPUXDVDWRITE

Andy

[Steven Schweda]

The cdrtools package includes a "readcd"
program which could do this. A Web search
for keywords like, say:
dvd image dd
should find many explanations of how to use
"dd" to do it.

> [...] and burn them to dvds otherwhere.

Why not just take the discs to the machine
with the DVD-writer, and do the copying
there?

[stephen peng]

Andrew,
It's hard for me to relate those thread to my specific issue, could you please offer me the step by step guide?

Steven,
1,you meaned just use dd to create a iso image? does bs matter in this dd ?
2,very simple, those dvds do not belong to me.

regards
Stephen

[Ismail Azad]

Hey stephen,

Yes, dd should do it. Here is a small note on Viktor Balogh's blog....

http://viktorbalogh.net/blog/hp-ux/hp-ux_sysadm/creating-iso-image-from-cddvd

Regards
Ismail Azad

[Steven Schweda]

> 1,you meaned just use dd to create a iso
> image?

An image of the DVD, yes. (Whether it's an
ISO 9660 image depends on what's on the DVD.)

> does bs matter in this dd ?

> [...] A Web search for [...]

My plan was for you to read this stuff, not
for me to read it and tell you what it says.

[Torsten.]

I already did this during a HPVM installation with a simple "dd" bs=2k - took some time, but works.

[stephen peng]

It was VSOE that I tried to make iso image, and as I remember, dd should deal with raw device, so I dd 3rd DVD using dd if=/dev/rdsk/c3t0d0(DVD rom), bs 1024k,and at the end of the dd, it told i/o error, but I could still open the iso image, of course, unable to verify whether it was a exactly good image; I try block dsf on 3rd DVD, it finished without any error, and on 1st and 2nd DVD, saying i/o error again liked the 3rd DVD with character dsf.
Was there size limitation? look like I could only verity the iso image when I try to boot it as installation source.


regards
Stephen