[clue] [TECH] Making disk images Is Clonezilla live a good choice ?

[CP Constantine]

On 6/12/2011 1:37 PM, David L. Anselmi wrote:
> CP Constantine wrote:
>>
>> hence: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=thatdisc.iso
>>
>> will produce a perfect ISO filesystem image, because that's what is
>> exposed by /dev/cdrom
> 
> Except for the bugs in the Linux CDROM drivers.  Take a .iso, burn it, run the above command, and 
> checksum the two .isos.  They're the same, right?
> 
> Dave

In the 14 years I've been doing that as my standard CD duplication
process, I've never had an experience that would prove otherwise. (ie.
the couple of times I've MD5'ed something, the above has been true...
but obviously, I don't do that every time).