[Herts] Herts LUG. I have a question?

[Cliff Deamer]

Thanks Rob,
That has given me a starter and I can work on from there.
regards   Cliff

On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 20:16 +0000, local.linux wrote:
> I like the EXAMPLES section of man pages, normally at the end.
> mkisofs -o cd.iso directorycontainingfiles
> 
> that will create a basic ISO image of the files in directorycontainingfiles.
> If you need a full harddrive backup including boot block then use dd
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/tmp/harddrive.image
> where /dev/hda matchs the hard drive you wish to backup
> 
> regards
> 
> Rob
> 
> On Saturday 14 April 2007 15:35, Cliff Deamer wrote:
> > A very enjoyable meeting on Wednesday last and Kevin, James and others
> > were very helpful in my efforts to get VMware up and running. I left the
> > meeting with a clear idea that I had to create an ISO image of the disk
> > I want to load and the instruction to use; mkisofs
> > I have read the books studied the "man" but cannot see how to do it.
> > I would guess I need something like mkisofs (source) (destination)
> > Bearing in mind that my source is the Windows 98 disk and the
> > destination needs to be something I can load into my virtual machine can
> > someone give me the command line I should be using?
> > Thanks  Cliff
> >
> >
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