From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 31 10:03:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA23949 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 May 1996 10:03:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA23942 for ; Fri, 31 May 1996 10:03:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA11937; Fri, 31 May 1996 10:06:03 -0700 Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 10:06:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Gabor Zahemszky cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot mount CD In-Reply-To: <199605311017.KAA01220@CoDe.CoDe.hu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 31 May 1996, Gabor Zahemszky wrote: > Last night I'd like to mount > ``MINDSCAPE U.S. ATLAS & ALMANAC (Version 6)'' > I mounted it, as usual (mount -t cd9660 -r /dev/scd0 /cdrom) > Mount was OK. cd /cdrom -> /cdrom not a directory. > ??? It was mounted, but it was only a 2048 byte file. In it, there was > the root dir of that (Windows/W95) CD. My guess would be that this isn't a real CD. Some CDs are written in a portable format so they can sell it for PCs and Macs without having to press two different CDs. If it's only this CD, and everything else works OK, then I'd say that this is the case, or something similar. Just a guess. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major