Create an ISO from a CD

[David Graser]

2Andre Heldoorn: No, on Hobbes I see an older version. This one is uploaded at

ftp://osfree.org/upload/froloff/cdrtools-2.01.01a59.zip

If I remember correctly, this latest one is needed to create an iso file successfully.  I could not get DVD Toys to work until I used this one.

[Valery Sedletski]

Yes, the latest one available from Froloff and Nickk (until they left OS/2 and didn't gave the sources to the community. Disappeared in
the unknown direction ;()

PS: BTW, this version of CDRTools supports USB CD/DVD/BD disks (tested well with my Hitachi-LG BP50NB40 Blu-ray/DVD/CD writer).
Though, better use the os2cdrom.dmd version from IBM's UDF filesystem (included in latest versions of eCS and ArcaOS), instead of
the version included in CDRTools.

PPS: On Blu-ray disks, UDF cannot format such disks as a "big disktette". UDF format just returns an "unknown medium" error. I use fat32.ifs for creating "big diskettes" with FAT/FAT32/exFAT filesystem on CD/DVD/BD rewritable disks. Just format such disks with the included FAT utility DLL  with /fs:<FAT16|FAT32|EXFAT> parameter:

format w: /fs:fat32 /v:fat32dvd

And you should be able to use such disks as "big diskettes". I reused here the CDRW read/write code from VBox. So, the same
routines are used in both programs.

[Valery Sedletski]

2Doug Clark: BTW, you can use VBox with WinXP guest to run Nero, and grab and burn CD's and DVD's from it. As latest OS/2 version of
VBox has support of CD/DVD pasthrough, and CD-writing software should work fine. Anybody tested that, except me?

PS: PowerDVD should work too, though, I didn't tried it.

[David Graser]

Yes, the latest one available from Froloff and Nickk (until they left OS/2 and didn't gave the sources to the community. Disappeared in
the unknown direction ;()

I wonder if this is froloff

https://github.com/froloff?tab=repositories

https://twitter.com/LeonidFrolov

The guy appears to be a programmer and is still active on twitter.

[Valery Sedletski]

No, this is wrong froloff. Frolloff should be Dmitry, not Leonid

[Remy]

In the cdrwsel (untested last package) under my site, you'll have included ( remydodin.levillage.org )
cdrtools2-2.01a32.zip
dvddao-2.0.4.zip
trk2iso.zip
cdrecord2

Cheers/2
 

[Doug Clark]

I am finally reporting back as requested.

I found three methods using OS/2 that work

1) The suggestion by Rich Walsh

readcd dev=0,1,0 -ftest.iso -retries-32

where dev=0,1,0 is the scsi address and test.iso is the name of the ISO file to create

2) Tonigy - which is an interesting animal.
With Tonigy (once installed)  you attached the CD as a drive letter on your machine using the Tonigy app.  Then when you open that drive letter  there appears the file
TRACK1.ISO
which you can copy.  That file is the ISO for the entire CD

3) eburnit
EburnIT is a front end for DVDDAO.exe

While DVD Toys can do it from the command line (#1) I didn't find any way to do it using its GUI.

[Martin Vieregg]

I have written a batchfile collection BatchBurn for easy use of cdrecord. A simple command to create an ISO file from a CD is also included.

[Martin Iturbide]

Hi Martin

Just a different subject that I noticed. Is you 4allCalc and Hypermake  still for sold on BMTMicro? Because when I clicked the link it says "This product is not available for purchase". (Pic attached)

Just as a suggestion, if you are still selling your software, you maybe can talk with Arca Noae to put your items on their store too.

Regards

[Wendy Krieger]

cdread.exe is the magic for making iso files from live media.

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To read the complete media from a CD-ROM writing the data to the file cdimage.raw:

readcd dev=2,0 f=cdimage.raw

Use readcd -scanbus   to find out the value for 'dev='.

With DVDTools, you have to register them to add the iso-file as an option.  The unregistered version does not do this.

[Wendy Krieger]

This mkisofs.exe does not appear to have -duplicatesonce as an option.

[Wendy Krieger]

I would be interested in Martin's hypermake etc.  Currently my web page is done in a home-grown markup language.

[Andreas Schnellbacher]

This mkisofs.exe does not appear to have -duplicatesonce as an option.

Maybe related: -makelinks sounds similar and is a recent option.

[Wendy Krieger]

CD Toys has a program "Save Disk Image", which is a gui interface to imageing disks.  See attached piccie.