Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 12:23:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: zgabor@code.hu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot mount CD Message-ID: <199605311923.MAA00483@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960531100440.11891A-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> from Doug White at "May 31, 96 10:06:03 am"
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According to Doug White: > On Fri, 31 May 1996, Gabor Zahemszky wrote: > > > Last night I'd like to mount > > ``MINDSCAPE U.S. ATLAS & ALMANAC (Version 6)'' > > I mounted it, as usual (mount -t cd9660 -r /dev/scd0 /cdrom) > > Mount was OK. cd /cdrom -> /cdrom not a directory. > > ??? It was mounted, but it was only a 2048 byte file. In it, there was > > the root dir of that (Windows/W95) CD. > > My guess would be that this isn't a real CD. Some CDs are written in a > portable format so they can sell it for PCs and Macs without having to > press two different CDs. If it's only this CD, and everything else > works OK, then I'd say that this is the case, or something similar. > > Just a guess. > Ahhh, this brings up a question that I'd had for quite awhile. CDROM dictionaries. Are they any that I can read with my FreeBSD system? Or must I sink to somethink like DOS/Win to do this? gary kline
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