From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 4 6:38:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ideaglobal.com (ultra2.ideaglobal.com [194.36.20.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05A4114E09 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 06:38:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kiril@ideaglobal.com) Received: (from kiril@localhost) by ideaglobal.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id OAA07270; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 14:32:39 +0100 (BST) From: Kiril Mitev Message-Id: <199906041332.OAA07270@ideaglobal.com> Subject: Re: how to make an ISO image of a CD ? To: mph@astro.caltech.edu (Matthew Hunt) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 14:32:38 +0100 (BST) Cc: kiril@ideaglobal.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <19990603111942.B60419@wopr.caltech.edu> from "Matthew Hunt" at Jun 3, 99 11:19:42 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 07:08:20PM +0100, Kiril Mitev wrote: > > > Thanks, but will it have all relevant ISO header stuff & such as well ? > > An ISO image is literally just an image of the disc. That's why > CD-R burners like them; it's just literally the bits that should go > on the disc. > > So there is no "header" information in the sense of there being anything > in the file which is different from the disc. They are supposed to > be the same. Ok, thanks :-) > > You can actually mount ISO images using the "vn" device. Check > out the man pages for "vn" and "vnconfig" if this sounds useful. I tried :-))))) see my other post to -questions. > > Matt > > -- > Matthew Hunt * UNIX is a lever for the > http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * intellect. -J.R. Mashey > Kiril To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message