Problem mounting an iso

bhert · 11-27-2006, 05:46 PM

Hello guys, I have a problem mounting an .iso that I ftped from windows to linux. My cds and DVDs can be mounted with no problems. These are the errors when I try to mount.

Code:

/home/beo/ # mount old_games.iso /mnt -o loop

mount: you must specify the filesystem type

Code:

/home/beo/ # mount -t iso9660 old_games.iso /mnt -o loop

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
missing codepage or other error

Am I missing something here? Is it not working because the .iso is from the windows machine? Thanks

-bhert

burninGpi · 11-27-2006, 06:09 PM

It's from the Window$ machine? Try:

Code:

/home/beo/ # mount old_games.iso /mnt -o loop -t joliet

Window$ doesn't like standard iso9660 images. joliet is just a modification to iso9660 that uses UTF-8 for filenames.

bhert · 11-27-2006, 06:35 PM

Hey burninGpi, thanks for the reply, here is what i got

Code:

/home/beo # mount old_games.iso /mnt -o loop -t joliet

mount: unknown filesystem type 'joliet'

What can I do? Obviosly I don't have that type of filesystem extension.

-bhert

bhert · 11-28-2006, 11:56 AM

Hello, doesn't know what can be done?

eerok · 11-28-2006, 02:26 PM

Try this

Code:

# mount -o loop,auto old_games.iso /mnt

burninGpi · 11-28-2006, 06:15 PM

right, I forgot about the auto thing.
shouldn't the above command be:

Code:

# mount -o loop -t auto old_games.iso /mnt

bhert · 11-28-2006, 09:14 PM

Thanks for helping but still no go, same error about specifying the filesystem type.

Now the .iso is being dang stubborn, I never knew that windows .iso could cause problems like this.
Any more ideas?

-bhert

eerok · 11-28-2006, 11:10 PM

burninGpi, "auto" is a mount option, not a fs type. Try it and see.

bhert, you either have a corrupt iso or you might want to look into this:

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/CD_Image_Conversion