You can, if you have another cd-rom drive in your system. I use cdrdao for audio cd's instead of cdrecord. If your cd-rom is /dev/cdrom, and your cd-writer is /dev/cdrecorder, the following works for me. cdrdao copy --driver generic-mmc --source-device /dev/cdrom Your mileage may very. Greg On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 06:44:48PM -0400, Danny Crone wrote: > Can a cd be copied without the copying on to the hard drive? Since an > audio cd has no directoriess, as far as I know, how do I tell cdrecord > where to look? > -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org