bogdan_rec

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Hi all,

I have a software installed on 10 CDs.
I am a tester and need to install this very often and become sick of this.
To install it I have to insert the first CD, run setup from it, when it is finished it asks for the next CD (had to insert CD nr 2) and so on.

I made 10 ISO images and mount the first image to /media/cdrom using this command:
mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 /home/bogdan/free_install/image1.iso /media/cdrom/
and run setup from it.
When it is finished installing from this image it asks for the next CD but
mounting image2.iso will not be the same as inserting CD2 into drive and
setup cannot find the second CD.

Mounting iso is not populating /dev/scd0 right? only a folder, can be any folder.. is just a mount.

I need to simulate somehow the real mount of a CD rom into drive. When I insert a real CD into drive the system populates /dev/scd0 or /dev/hdc with cdrom's data which is not happening on an regular mount.

How can I simulate insertion of a CD .. a system mount, when CD is inserted?

Thanks in advance,
Bogdan

ps: I also tried to link /dev/cdrom to /media/cdrom but no use.. same problem

bogdan_rec

Haha.. after I've tried all kind of crazy things I manage to make the
setup recognize my second mount by mounting the second CD with the same ISO name..

I found out that the setup takes the device dir name the name of the folder/ISO file..
On a normal CD mount the device name is always the same /dev/scd0 but on an ISO mount the device dir name is the iso's file name.
So I rename image1.iso to image.iso and mount it and run setup.
When mount the second cd I renamed image2.iso to the same name image.iso
and the setup recognize it because has the same device dir name.

I wrote this in case someone may have same problem and this might be a possible solution in their case.

arckane

Hmm, I wonder if you had just symlinked it on each disc change, would that have worked just as well?