A couple of methods for copying a CD to a file:
Verifying an ISO Image or CDR/CDRW
As usual, there are more than one way of verifying an ISO image, two of them below:
Fedora 10 Linux Install on HP Compaq Presario V6000 Laptop
The HP Compaq Presario V6000 laptop was pretty challenging for setting up Fedora 10. The X-sever initially did not want to detect screens, so I had to play around a little with kernel parameters. Adding the following parameters resulted in…
Using an ISO Image without Burning it to CD Media
One can mount an iso file and use it as a directory.
Blanking CD-RW or DVD-RW Media
Here are a few methods to quickly blank CD-RW/DVD-RW media:
Convert APE, FLAC, Wavpack, Ogg, MP3 Encoded Files Under Linux
The below should work out for x86_64 platform too.
Finding your CDROM or DVDROM drive
How to find more useful information about your CDROM / DVDROM drive: cdrecord -scanbus
