Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 22:20:46 -0400 From: Laszlo Vagner <george@vagner.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@freebsd.org> Cc: How Can ThisBe <howcanthisbe300@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: How can I mount a cdrom .bin file? Message-ID: <3EC2F97E.7040702@vagner.com> References: <BAY7-F45nEHVKd7IRaP0001fd33@hotmail.com> <20030515013732.GL4390@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >On Wednesday, 14 May 2003 at 21:17:22 +0000, How Can ThisBe wrote: > > >>Hello. I have a number of .bin CDROM images and I was wondering how I >>can mount them? I know how to mount .iso CDROM images but .bin is new >>to me :] >> >> > >File name extensions are meaningless in UNIX. You can call them >anything you want. As somebody else observed, it might be a >proprietary format, in which case you're out of luck. But don't >assume anything based on the name. file(1) is your friend some of the >time, but it doesn't recognize ISO images. > >Greg >-- >When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. >If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. >For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html >See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > i been easedropping on this thread and thought i would try mounting one myself. My results are disappointing to say the least, this iso file was created with mkisofs and burned successfully to cdrom. amd2000# mount /usr/home/vagner/cd1.iso /mnt mount: /usr/home/vagner/cd1.iso: Block device required amd2000# mount_msdos /usr/home/vagner/cd1.iso /mnt mount_msdos: /usr/home/vagner/cd1.iso: Block device required amd2000# mount_cd9660 /usr/home/vagner/cd1.iso /mnt mount_cd9660: /usr/home/vagner/cd1.iso: Block device required amd2000# never tried this before so i think i must be doing something wrong. amd2000# uname -a FreeBSD amd2000.vagner.com 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #10: Tue May 13 13:35:26 EDT 2003 vagner@amd2000.vagner.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/amd2000 i386 amd2000#
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