Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 14:59:01 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "William Wong" <willwong@samurai.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vn device and ISO files Message-ID: <14944.49557.647299.240286@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <97974838@toto.iv>
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William Wong <willwong@samurai.com> types: > Hi there, > > I'm trying to create a image.iso file and mount it. > > I'm doing: > dd if=/dev/zero of=image.iso bs=28m count=25 > vnconfig vn0 image.iso > mount_cd9660 /dev/vn0c /mnt/location/ > > and I'm getting the error message: > mount_cd9660: Invalid argument > > I think this has something to do with either the image.iso not being > formated in the iso9660 spec. Is there a way to newfs or am I going about > this all wrong? Yup, your "image.iso" isn't a valid iso file system - it's a bunch of zeros. Use "mkisofs" (from the ports) to build an iso image to mount. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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