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Date:      Fri, 31 May 1996 10:06:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@code.hu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cannot mount CD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960531100440.11891A-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199605311017.KAA01220@CoDe.CoDe.hu>

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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




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