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Old 04-10-2002, 10:22 AM   #1
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Read from CD


I'm trying to copy contents from my CD (to create a Jedi Knight 2 server) to my drive. What are the commands to mount the cdrom so I can explore the cd?
 
Old 04-10-2002, 10:30 AM   #2
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"mount /mnt/cdrom" should do it .
 
Old 04-10-2002, 10:41 AM   #3
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I found it, thanks.
 
Old 04-10-2002, 11:24 AM   #4
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If, however, you plan on copying many CDs to your harddisk so that they can be accessed, you might wanna try:
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=ISOFILE
As you can guess, this creates a file called ISOFILE which holds the entire contents of the CD. This can be mounted so that people can access the files with:
mount -o loop ISOFILE /mountpoint

The only reason I was thinking of this was if you wanted to restrict access of some of the CDs. Instead of having lots of subdirs with actual files all over the place, you could simply have a collection of ISO files, and have the relavent ones mounted as and when required.
 
  


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