Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:21:13 -0500 From: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting an ISO, mount_cd9660: Invalid argument Message-ID: <3A26D2D9.A2835FAC@glue.umd.edu> References: <14885.51790.828337.530991@guru.mired.org> <3A26872E.D5DCB8D6@glue.umd.edu> <14886.48853.20119.824972@guru.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer wrote: > > Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> types: > > Mike Meyer wrote: > > > Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> types: > > > > Brandon Fosdick wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I wanted to mount an ISO so I looked around in the archives and found this: > > > > vnconfig /dev/vn0c image.iso > > > > mount_cd9660 /dev/vn0c /mnt > > > > mount_cd9660: Invalid argument > > > It looks like your iso isn't. i.e.: > > > su-2.04# vnconfig /dev/vn0 /etc/motd > > > su-2.04# mount -t cd9660 /dev/vn0c /mnt > > > cd9660: Invalid argument > > I had thought about that but the image burns to cd just fine. FWIW I used > > Adpatec's Easy CD Creator Pro to create the images. Is there anyway to verify > > the integrity of an image? Any know issues with CD Creator? > > When you say "the image burns to cd just fine", do you mean that the > cd mounts after you burn it from that image? If so, you're right - > something very strange is going on. If you just mean you can make CDs, > that doesn't tell you anything; burning an ISO image doesn't involve > interpreting the data in the CD. I mean the former. I can burn and then mount and use the cd as if it were the original. Just for kicks I took a windows cd, made an image (with CD Creator), burned it to another disk (with CD Creator) and then installed it on an old machine without any problems. So that tells me that the data is valid. I haven't tried burning an image with burncd yet, I get the feeling that it won't work though. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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