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I don't agree that this question is off topic, but following a comment it has been posted on Stack Overflow where it is more likely to get answered I suppose (in fact it already has an answer there)
So what should be done with the original post here?
is this question a dupe of something... I don't know about Windows! The existing upvoted answer doesn't look very helpful... I don't know how they figure the problem was with GRUB... the other answers don't look helpful either
the anonymous feedback (enter post ID 131873) on that answer is mostly negative - +3, -9
@guntbert that seems sensible (sorry for late response!)
@Zanna My concern is that for one of us to edit it in might be regarded as a radical change because, while an example command could be given, it would be necessary to explain each part of the command so readers can adapt it. Furthermore, in practice one would want to use a command that is slightly more complicated than the simplest possible to command to achieve that goal, in order to set a larger block size for the transfer, so that it would complete in a reasonable amount of time.
Because non-root users typically don't have even read access to the raw device files that represent disks, like /dev/sr0 (as is often the device name for a DVD drive), the simplest way to run the command would be with sudo, just as one would do to run the reverse dd command (that the author mentioned) to write data to the disk. However, when you read from the disk and write it to a file, presumably you then want to be able to access the file as a non-root user.
So something has to be done for that, too. The answer would not necessarily have to mention chmoding the .iso file after creating it (or alternatives like touching the file as a non-root user to create it as that user, before then writing to it as root), but I am somewhat uncomfortable expanding a vague answer to be less vague but only halfway usable. The answer might then garner downvotes, when people try to use the technique and encounter those problems.
So I could add an example like this:
sudo dd if=/dev/sr0 of=image.iso bs=4M
But then I should add an explanation, too, and I'm not sure the explanation would be adequate. Perhaps I am worrying too much about it and should just add the example with no explanation or a minimal explanation. This is really what I'm wondering about, though I had not asked very well originally (I had just asked if it should be expanded, but I had failed to explain why I was unsure).
