I can’t recall the last time I needed to convert a CD to ISO. I have four laptops and not one even has a DVD drive. It took me a while to find an external drive and remember how to do this.

To avoid having to deal with this nonsense the next time around, I wrote a little helper script. I was running it in Elementary OS VM under VirtualBox on Windows 10. Because the VM is rather small, I have the script mount an NFS share and write the ISO to it. You can certainly make this a local directory, if space is not an issue. The script is also available on my GitHub repo.

#!/bin/bash
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#                                 2019-08-22
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# A small helper script to rip CD-ROM to ISO and put it on NFS share
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# CHANGE CONTROL
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# 2019-08-22  igor  wrote this script
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function func_configure() {
  nas="192.168.122.132"
  nfs_share="software"
  nfs_mount="/mnt/${nas}/${nfs_share}"
  d="/dev/cdrom"
  t="/mnt/cdrom"
  mkdir -p "${t}" "${nfs_mount}" 2>/dev/null
}

function func_mount_nfs() {
  if [ $(mountpoint ${nfs_mount} 2>/dev/null 1>&2; echo $?) -ne 0 ]; then
  mount.nfs ${nas}:${nfs_share} "${nfs_mount}" || exit 1
  fi
}

function func_mount_cdrom() {
  if [ $(mountpoint /mnt/cdrom 2>/dev/null 1>&2; echo $?) -ne 0 ]; then
  mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom || exit 2
  fi
}

function func_get_geometry() {
  bs=$(isoinfo -d -i /dev/cdrom | grep -i -E -m1 'block size' | grep -oP '[0-9]{1,}')
  cn=$(isoinfo -d -i /dev/cdrom | grep -i -E -m1 'volume size' | grep -oP '[0-9]{1,}')
  if [ -z "${bs}" ] || [ -z "${cn}" ]; then exit 3; fi
}

function func_cdrip() {
  dd if=/dev/cdrom of=${nfs_mount}/cdrom_${RANDOM}_$(date +'%Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S').iso \
  bs=${bs} count=${cn} status=progress
  umount /mnt/cdrom && eject /dev/cdrom
}

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func_configure
func_mount_nfs
func_mount_cdrom
func_get_geometry
func_cdrip