[oclug] Reading CD's and mounting as a specific format?

Ross Jordan rjordan at student.math.uwaterloo.ca
Fri Jul 25 17:14:56 EDT 2003


> 
> Hi All
> 	I have a CDROM here (professionally pressed, not a CD-R)
> If installed in a Win9x or MacOSX machine it shows 22 items.
> If installed in a RH7.2 or MacOS9 machine it shows 18 items.
> Interestingly, win4lin on RH7.2 (same machine) shows all 22 items!
> How the heck do I get linux to mount it as the appropriate format
> or whatever so I can see all 22 items from linux?

When you say "items", what do you mean? files, directories, audio
tracks...

This could be caused by a number of things potentially:
a multi session CD, different types of filesystems. Usually
windows CDs use the Joliet filesystem.

-Ross




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