How to mount .bin file

remirez83 · 11-06-2007, 01:13 PM

I need to mount a .bin file which is a VCD image.
I tried to :
"mount -t auto -o loop my_bin_file.bin /mnt/my_destination_folder"
and I have got :
"mount: you must specify the filesystem type"
I also tried :
"mount -t iso9660 -o loop *.bin /mnt/my_destination_folder"
and I got :
"mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so"
Can anyone help me to mount this VCD image file to a some directory?

indienick · 11-06-2007, 01:23 PM

I've never tried mounting images in Linux, but I will try as soon as I get home from work.

I'm pretty sure setting the FS type to ISO9660 isn't going to work as the image wasn't saved using the ISO9660 filesystem layout.

PTrenholme · 11-06-2007, 01:27 PM

You might find this link helpful. Note that a "movie player" is used to view the image contents.

bryantrv · 11-06-2007, 01:31 PM

Oddly enough (as happens often with me), a Google on this yielded this LQ thread

remirez83 · 11-06-2007, 02:10 PM

Wow!!! I can't belive it. Mplayer really opened this .bin file as a normall ordinary movie file. Ha, nothing is going to surprised me now. Thank's a lot dudes.

LlNUX · 11-07-2007, 12:05 AM

Also you can always convert *.bin to *.iso and them mount it :-)

remirez83 · 11-10-2007, 03:52 AM

But How can I do that. How can I convert .bin to .iso?

PTrenholme · 11-10-2007, 01:11 PM

Look at the link I posted, above.