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Subject: Re: Cannot mount CD
To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 12:23:01 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: zgabor@code.hu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960531100440.11891A-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> from Doug White at "May 31, 96 10:06:03 am"
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According to Doug White:
> 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.
> 

	
	Ahhh, this brings up a question that I'd had for 
	quite awhile.  CDROM dictionaries.  Are they any 
	that I can read with my FreeBSD system?  Or must 
	I sink to somethink like DOS/Win to do this?  

	gary kline