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11-06-2005, 07:26 AM
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Registered: Jun 2005
Location: University of Maryland
Distribution: FreeBSD
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virtual drives?
are there any programs that will allow me to have virtual dvd drives? I know they exist for window's, but i havent seen any for linux.
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11-06-2005, 09:37 AM
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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
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there are no programs to do this, as it's far too simple for a program to need to be written for. the kernel can do it from day one...
mount -o loop /home/user/dvd.iso /mnt/dvd
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11-06-2005, 10:13 AM
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Registered: Jun 2005
Location: University of Maryland
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i knew about that, but wouldnt that mean i need a dvd drive? i want to mount an image to a drive that doenst physically exist. should i add a fake drive to my fstab?
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11-06-2005, 10:25 AM
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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
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what part of that says you need a dvd drive? you're using a loopback device, not a real one.
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