Transmigration of the CD-image soul from Mac to Linux?

[robotech_master]

I have a Wallstreet laptop with a CDROM drive, and I have a Linux desktop box with a CDROM burner.

I have some CDs in Macintosh format.

Is there any way I can extract a disk image of the Mac CDs (either with the Linux box or with the Mac and send it over the network) and then burn a copy under Linux that will work in a Mac drive? What if the CD is boot-capable?

Comments

[mrbankies.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know what's out there for linux in the way of CD burning/mastering software, but you ought to look for one that does CD copying. It shouldn't matter what the CD's format is, the program should end up making an exact duplicate. HTH

ISO9660

[(Anonymous)]

If they're cds, then they -should- be CD-ISO9660. That said, you -should- be able to rip and burn them in Linux, without ripping the images on a different system. IF they arne't standard, and are some ghetto-fabulous proprietary extension, then you'll probably want to compile in the cd-filesystem type in the Linux kernel, then you should be able to rip and burn with impunity.

YMMV.

Re: ISO9660

[(Anonymous)]

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=image.iso

cdrecord image.iso

et voila

If the CD's in HFS format and you actually want to read the files on the CD you need to compile HFS support into your kernel. It *should* be in iso9660 format, however.