Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 22:54:41 -0400 From: Laszlo Vagner <george@vagner.com> To: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@www.get-linux.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can I mount a cdrom .bin file?\ Message-ID: <3EC30171.9000308@vagner.com> References: <BAY7-F45nEHVKd7IRaP0001fd33@hotmail.com> <20030515013732.GL4390@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030515024537.GA29949@webserver.get-linux.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Joshua Oreman wrote: >On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:07:32AM +0930 or thereabouts, Greg 'groggy' Lehey seemed to write: > > >>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. >> >> > >Just not true. It does recognize ISOs. >It worked fine for me, as well as the person I was helping :-) > >HTH, >-- Josh > > > >>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 >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > That was a great little command! worked perfect! I been messing with freebsd since 2.2.2 circa 1996 and still it amazes me, now if i could only remember all these commands. That should be a good seller... a cheat sheet for freebsd with all the good commands listed but leave out the "ls" and more common commands.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3EC30171.9000308>