HOWTO: ISO creation from terminal

[Martje_001]

Hi,
I was looking for this (for a BASH script I wanted to write), and I found out how to do it. Now I want to share it

1. Create ISO-file from folder

mkisofs -r -o /isofile.iso /folder

where /isofile.iso is the relative or absolute path to the iso-file you want to create and /folder the absolute or relative path to the folder you want to backup.

2. Create ISO-file from file(s)

mkisofs -r -o /isofile.iso /mybigfile

or if you want to backup multipi files (like you .mp3 collection):

mkisofs -r -o /isofile.iso *.mp3

3. Create ISO-file from a cd/dvd-drive

dd if=/dev/cdrom0 of=isofile.iso

where /dev/cdrom0 is your cd/dvd-drive and isofile.iso your iso-file you want to create.

Note: An absolute path is like '/home/yn/myfile.iso', a relative path is like 'myfile.iso'

[Goll]

Thanks very much for this.
If I could- I would press the thank you button, but I'm not seeing one.

Thanks to you!

[Martje_001]

February 17th, 2008, the button wasn't there yet

[oookkkooo]

Still no button so thank you

[binbash]

Thanks, simple but useful one.

[boopathisivakumar]

thank you lot ...

[geazzy]

nice tutorial