HOWTO: Create ISO Files in Ubuntu

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HOWTO: Create ISO Files in Ubuntu

October 9, 2009 A. Ozgur Leave a comment Go to comments

If you ever wanted to create an ISO file, you don’t need additional software or any power skill under Ubuntu. You can either create an ISO of an optical drive (e.g. CD, DVD) or a bunch of folders .

If you want to create an ISO file of a folder just type this is a terminal:

mkisofs -r -o file.iso /folder/

If you want to create an ISO file off of CD/DVD:

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=file.iso bs=1024

BE CAREFUL!!

dd (aka Data Destroyer) can cause serious data loss if you don’t be careful when writing if (input file) , of (output file) locations you will lose data.

That’s it

Enjoy