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Date:      Tue, 30 Jun 2015 14:02:06 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Paul Kraus <paul@kraus-haus.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Install OS from UDF for VBox
Message-ID:  <441tgtjcrl.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <15549383-5FB0-4C7C-A041-84D1F2EE0C24@kraus-haus.org> (Paul Kraus's message of "Tue, 30 Jun 2015 13:21:04 -0400")
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Paul Kraus <paul@kraus-haus.org> writes:

> An additional bit of info =85 if I put the DVD in the drive and use the
> VBox passthrough driver I can install from the DVD. I do not have DVD
> drives on all the host systems though.

Have you tried md(4)?

Something like "mdconfig -a -t vnode -f udf-image-file" should do it.

> On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:49, Paul Kraus <paul@kraus-haus.org> wrote:
>
>> Apologies if this is an answered question, but searching both online and=
 my copies of this list have turned up nothing useful.
>>=20
>> I am running a number of VBox environments under FBSD and need to be
>> able to install various OSes from ISO images that are UDF not
>> 9660+extensions. The specific ones I am running up against right now
>> include:
>>=20
>> Ubunutu 14.04 LTS Server
>> Windows 8.1 Pro=20
>> Windows Server 2012 R2
>>=20
>> I am running FBSD 10.1 as current as possible for both OS and ports.
>>=20
>> VBox tosses an error when I try to add the ISO image to the =93CD=94
>> drive. The error is VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED and my research has led me to
>> the conclusion that the problem is that these are UDF format ISO=92s
>> (so that they may contain files larger than 2 GB). I also cannot
>> mount the ISO under FBSD using mount_udf, so they are a newer
>> version of UDF than mount_udf supports. I assume this is the crux of
>> the issue VBox is having, the underlying OS does not have support
>> for this version of the UDF spec.
>>=20
>> Am I missing something obvious, like a port to add that support (I
>> tried sysutils/udfclient with no luck as well), or is this just a
>> feature that has not been added to FBSD (yet) ?
>>=20
>> --
>> Paul Kraus
>> paul@kraus-haus.org
>>=20
>
> --
> Paul Kraus
> paul@kraus-haus.org
>
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