Using cdrdao to make several copies of the same CD

Denis Leroy denis at poolshark.org
Wed Nov 8 23:29:57 UTC 2006


Paul Smith wrote:
> On 11/8/06, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
>> > I am using the command
>> >
>> > cdrdao copy --eject --device /dev/dvd
>> >
>> > to duplicate a CD. Is it possible to use cdrdao to copy several
>> > copies of the same CD without having to insert the original CD as
>> > many times as the desired number of copies?
>>
>> You can probably do this more than one way.  I'd use cdrdao read-cd to
>> read the cd and create an image.  Then use cdrdao write to write that
>> image to as many disks as I wanted before deleting the image and toc
>> files.
> 
> Thanks, Todd. I am trying the command
> 
> cdrdao read-cd --device /dev/dvd
> 
> but getting this
> 
> $ cdrdao read-cd --device /dev/dvd
> ERROR: Missing toc-file.
> 
> Any ideas?

btw, there are gui tools available to do this. gcdmaster (the cdrdao gui 
front-end) and brasero, among others. Both are available from Fedora Extras.




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