Making a backup of a CDROM that is still bootable
For some reason, I couldn't find an option in DiskTool to make a .dmg file from the contents of a disk.
I asked a few mac users and the preferred option seems to be to rip off a copy of toast. While this is an excellent idea normally, I'd like to keep this machine free of pirated software because I am worried it might get together with the vast pirated movie collection on my external hard disk, and stir up a mutiny.
Besides, its a mac, there must be an "easy" way to do it, right?
Like for example, by using good TERMINAL, which conforms to Apple's Human Interface Guidelines by displaying the terminal and CLI inside a resizable window with a stylish top bar. Just don't look inside the window...
umount /dev/disk1s0
cat /dev/disk1s0 > /Volumes/LaCie/BootableDiskImage.dmg
Now all I gotta do is put in a blank CDR and.. oh shit, the disk is stuck. No, it won't eject. At all. Fuck. Its totally stuck in there. Like forever or until I reboot. Shit. Wait, maybe I can repair the damage I did somehow...
After 15 minutes of fucking around Larry, Curly and Moe style, I finally managed to find the command that did the magic trick:
mount -o ro -t cd9660 /dev/disk1s0 /Volumes/DISKNAME
Where DISKNAME was the name of the disc that happened to be in the drive that wouldn't eject or read... Anyways, once that command runs, the software eject works great. I was able to put in a blank CD and then burn the .dmg file to it with DiskTool, no problem.
This is one of the many ways a Macintosh is so much easier than a Windows computer. I was able to eject that disk from the comfort of my keyboard without once having to get up and go all the way over to just press an eject button.
I asked a few mac users and the preferred option seems to be to rip off a copy of toast. While this is an excellent idea normally, I'd like to keep this machine free of pirated software because I am worried it might get together with the vast pirated movie collection on my external hard disk, and stir up a mutiny.
Besides, its a mac, there must be an "easy" way to do it, right?
Like for example, by using good TERMINAL, which conforms to Apple's Human Interface Guidelines by displaying the terminal and CLI inside a resizable window with a stylish top bar. Just don't look inside the window...
umount /dev/disk1s0
cat /dev/disk1s0 > /Volumes/LaCie/BootableDiskImage.dmg
Now all I gotta do is put in a blank CDR and.. oh shit, the disk is stuck. No, it won't eject. At all. Fuck. Its totally stuck in there. Like forever or until I reboot. Shit. Wait, maybe I can repair the damage I did somehow...
After 15 minutes of fucking around Larry, Curly and Moe style, I finally managed to find the command that did the magic trick:
mount -o ro -t cd9660 /dev/disk1s0 /Volumes/DISKNAME
Where DISKNAME was the name of the disc that happened to be in the drive that wouldn't eject or read... Anyways, once that command runs, the software eject works great. I was able to put in a blank CD and then burn the .dmg file to it with DiskTool, no problem.
This is one of the many ways a Macintosh is so much easier than a Windows computer. I was able to eject that disk from the comfort of my keyboard without once having to get up and go all the way over to just press an eject button.