Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 19:45:37 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can I mount a cdrom .bin file?\ Message-ID: <20030515024537.GA29949@webserver.get-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <20030515013732.GL4390@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <BAY7-F45nEHVKd7IRaP0001fd33@hotmail.com> <20030515013732.GL4390@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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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
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