Well if you have your CD mounted, it's just another file system. 
/mnt/cdrom or whatever right?  Therefore if you make a directory - say
~/cdrom and copy the contents of the CD to it and make everything from
~/cdrom on down read only, wouldn't that look pretty much the same?

Maybe you are thinking in windoze terms. Basically the cd emulators
exist to associate a drive letter with a file (usually the ISO image of
the CD).  But in a real operating system, where everything is already a
file....

Or am I missing something here?

HTH
Brian

On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 13:57, mike wrote:
> Hi everyone, 
> 
> I hope this isn't dumb, and that something isn't already installed in my
> system,
> but ...
> 
> Is there software similar to virtual drive ( the cd drive emulator )?
> 
> I have some cd I would like to use in linux from a virtual cd drive, so
> I don't have to use the cd all the time. 
> 
> Is this at all possible?
> 
> Mike
> 
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