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

Brian's Linux Box b_mckee at myrealbox.com
Fri Jul 25 17:35:52 EDT 2003


On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 05:14  PM, Ross Jordan wrote:

>>
>> 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.

It doesn't look multisession.
Shouldn't linux mount it as Joliet if it is Joliet?

The four items are files with a 'bin' extension marked 'hidden'
in the Windows file properties window.
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 From OSX
bash-2.05a$ ls -al
total 22284
dr-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     2048 May 27 09:54 ./
drwxrwxrwt  8 root  wheel      272 Jul 25 17:22 ../
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       27 Aug 11  1999 AUTORUN.INF*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     5888 Aug 14  1998 BELRES16.DLL*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2334400 Nov 23  1999 Belrpt16.bin*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     2233 Feb  5  2000 Disis2.ini*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       36 Mar 18 07:30 FFSERVER.LOG*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    20480 Mar 18 07:30 FFSUSER.FFD*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   320640 Nov  8  1997 ILDA16.DLL*
dr-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     2048 Sep 29  2000 KUNDEN/
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      327 Aug 19  1999 Language.txt*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    16693 Aug 24  1999 Locale.txt*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   338784 Mar 20  1996 SKY16V3C.DLL*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   790528 Apr  9  1999 TRANSPRT.BIN*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1533312 Jul 25  1999 belrpt.bin*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     1087 Apr 11  2000 client.def*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   198144 Dec  1  1999 disis.exe*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1847424 Mar 29  2000 parts.bin*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1531232 Apr 25  1999 rptedt16.bin*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1531232 Apr 25  1999 rptvue16.bin*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     1073 May 27 07:39 server.DEF*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   137401 Jun 15  1999 start.FH7*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   743926 Jun 15  1999 start.bmp*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    54703 Jun 15  2000 translat.txt*

parts.bin is one of the files that doesn't show in linux
bash-2.05a$ file parts.bin
parts.bin: MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or Windows
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 From RH7.2
[admin at purchasing2 cdrom]$ ls -al
total 5614
dr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root         2048 May 27 09:54 .
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4096 May  1  2002 ..
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           27 Aug 11  1999 AUTORUN.INF
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root         5888 Aug 14  1998 BELRES16.DLL
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root      2334400 Nov 23  1999 Belrpt16.bin
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root      1533312 Jul 25  1999 belrpt.bin
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root         1087 Apr 11  2000 client.def
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root         2233 Feb  5  2000 Disis2.ini
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root       198144 Dec  1  1999 disis.exe
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           36 Mar 18 07:30 FFSERVER.LOG
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root        20480 Mar 18 07:30 FFSUSER.FFD
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root       320640 Nov  8  1997 ILDA16.DLL
dr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root         2048 Sep 29  2000 KUNDEN
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root          327 Aug 19  1999 Language.txt
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root        16693 Aug 24  1999 Locale.txt
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root         1073 May 27 07:39 server.DEF
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root       338784 Mar 20  1996 SKY16V3C.DLL
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root       743926 Jun 15  1999 start.bmp
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root       137401 Jun 15  1999 start.FH7
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root        54703 Jun 15  2000 translat.txt
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