From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 14 19:54:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F44137B401; Wed, 14 May 2003 19:54:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.vagner.com (ns1.vagner.com [65.39.87.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A42743F85; Wed, 14 May 2003 19:54:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from george@vagner.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by ns1.vagner.com (8.12.9/8.12.8) id h4F2siQe059461; Wed, 14 May 2003 19:54:44 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from george@vagner.com) Received: from vagner.com (pcp01602196pcs.manass01.va.comcast.net [68.50.240.22]) by ns1.vagner.com (8.12.9/8.12.8av) with ESMTP id h4F2sf1E059451; Wed, 14 May 2003 19:54:42 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from george@vagner.com) Message-ID: <3EC30171.9000308@vagner.com> Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 22:54:41 -0400 From: Laszlo Vagner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021229 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joshua Oreman References: <20030515013732.GL4390@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030515024537.GA29949@webserver.get-linux.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-18.9 required=4.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,REFERENCES,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA version=2.53 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can I mount a cdrom .bin file?\ X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 02:54:45 -0000 Joshua Oreman wrote: >On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:07:32AM +0930 or thereabouts, Greg 'groggy' Lehey seemed to write: > > >>On Wednesday, 14 May 2003 at 21:17:22 +0000, How Can ThisBe wrote: >> >> >>>Hello. I have a number of .bin CDROM images and I was wondering how I >>>can mount them? I know how to mount .iso CDROM images but .bin is new >>>to me :] >>> >>> >>File name extensions are meaningless in UNIX. You can call them >>anything you want. As somebody else observed, it might be a >>proprietary format, in which case you're out of luck. But don't >>assume anything based on the name. file(1) is your friend some of the >>time, but it doesn't recognize ISO images. >> >> > >Just not true. It does recognize ISOs. >It worked fine for me, as well as the person I was helping :-) > >HTH, >-- Josh > > > >>Greg >>-- >>When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. >>If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. >>For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html >>See complete headers for address and phone numbers >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > That was a great little command! worked perfect! I been messing with freebsd since 2.2.2 circa 1996 and still it amazes me, now if i could only remember all these commands. That should be a good seller... a cheat sheet for freebsd with all the good commands listed but leave out the "ls" and more common commands.