Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 23:00:17 +0100 (CET) From: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> To: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> Cc: "Oliver, Michael W." <oliver.michael@gargantuan.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: dd if=/cdrom of=file.iso ?? Message-ID: <20011113225748.B502-100000@howie.ncptiddische.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111131324100.8209-100000@localhost.localdomain>
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On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > At Tue, 13 Nov 2001 it looks like Oliver, Michael W. composed: > > > I have found success using the following command: > > > > $dd bs=2048 if=/dev/cd0c of=~/blah.iso > > > > Great, that worked fine and I appreciate it. > > In trying to mount the iso in a loopback fashion I'm not getting > anywhere fast, normally I'd use the command (in linux) of: > > mount -o loop blah.iso /mnt/test > > and I'd then be able to access the CD image, in FreeBSD they point > to the manpage of "mount_null" and it falling a little short (with > my help of course) of working, Have a look at /usr/src/i386/conf/LINT and do a search for the vn device. I think you need this to be compiled into your kernel in order to use a file as a device. I'm not 100% sure as I never had to do this, but I guess it *could* work... Greetings Nils Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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