[LUNI] help with copying CDs that have errors

[Samir Faci]

gnomebaker (kubuntu)?   that just looks odd.

try k3b, see if it behaves any better, or what seva said as well.

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Samir

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Seva Epsteyn <seva at sevatech.com> wrote:

> I think you can just use dd, as insomething like
>
>  dd if=/dev/cdrom of=image.iso bs=412 conv=noerror
>
> -Seva
>
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Carey Tyler Schug wrote:
>
> > A backup CD could have a lot of information on it, and be going bad over
> time,
> > so one would want to make a fresh copy of as much as possible.
> >
> > as far as I can find, gnomebaker (kubuntu) and the equivalent in ubuntu
> will
> > abort a copy at the first read failure.  Is there a way to force them or
> > anything equivalent to do the best it can?  I realize if the failure is
> in a
> > directory block, it may not be so useful, but most of the time it may
> just be
> > one file that is lost.
> >
> > If not in any of the gui packages, is there a tutorial somewhere using
> line
> > mode commands to do this?
> >
> >
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