I believe this will give you what you are looking for. Assumptions: a. Your CD-ROM mounts at /mnt/cdrom b. Your disk drive has enough space c. The commands are installed on your system. d. The cd you want to put on a "virtual drive" is a Star Office disc (used only for descriptive file/directory naming, change for your application)
1. Mount the CD-ROM you wish to use: "mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom" 2. Create a directory on a partition with enough space where you want: "mkdir /home/fred/star_office_cd" and " mkdir /home/fred/soffice" 3. Use dd to make an iso image from the cdrom: "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/fred/star_office_cd/soffice.iso 4. Edit the file /etc/fstab with your favorite editor (as root): "pico /etc/fstab" 5. Add the following line to it (all on one line): /home/fred/star_office_cd/soffice.iso /home/fred/soffice auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,ro,auto,loop 0 0 6. The line will make it automount at boot in /home/fred/soffice/* or you can change the "auto" to "noauto" to have to mount it with "mount /home/fred/star_office_cd/soffice.iso /home/fred/soffice". If you don't use the image all that often, you can use tar & gzip to compress it and make a simple shell script to automatically uncompress it and mount it, then another one to dismount and delete the uncompressed image, keeping the compressed one safe. But that's another story. Chad -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Parish Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 10:10 PM To: expert Subject: Re: [expert] virtual drive for Linux? 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 > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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