From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 14 19:20:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95B4D37B401; Wed, 14 May 2003 19:20:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.vagner.com (ns1.vagner.com [65.39.87.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87F5C43F3F; Wed, 14 May 2003 19:20:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from george@vagner.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by ns1.vagner.com (8.12.9/8.12.8) id h4F2KngV059253; Wed, 14 May 2003 19:20:49 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from george@vagner.com) Received: from vagner.com (pcp01602196pcs.manass01.va.comcast.net [68.50.240.22]) by ns1.vagner.com (8.12.9/8.12.8av) with ESMTP id h4F2Kk1E059243; Wed, 14 May 2003 19:20:47 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from george@vagner.com) Message-ID: <3EC2F97E.7040702@vagner.com> Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 22:20:46 -0400 From: Laszlo Vagner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021229 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" References: <20030515013732.GL4390@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-18.9 required=4.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,REFERENCES,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA version=2.53 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: How Can ThisBe Subject: Re: How can I mount a cdrom .bin file? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 02:20:50 -0000 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#