[cumbria_lug] verifying postal media

[Michael Dorrington]

On 29/06/11 13:44, Andrew wrote:
> Thanks for that Michael, im having problems geting readom to access the
> dvd but have found another solution:
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=264694
> 
> the given script uses 'dd' with blocksize and blockcount options. Do you
> think it be more approprate to replace 'dd' with 'readom' ?
> 
> [root at localhost Scripts]# readom dev=/dev/cdrom
> f=/home/me/Scripts/fedora.iso
> Error trying to open /dev/cdrom exclusively (Device or resource busy)...
> retrying in 1 second.

You need to unmount the media first. I suspect it has been automounted.
The GUI tools tend to eject rather then letting you just unmount the
media so as root do:
umount /dev/cdrom

Regards,
Mike.

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