On 9/5/05, Zaid Amireh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 9/4/05, Ala'a Ibrahim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have you ever been wondering if you can get some software on Linux to what
> Virtual CD or Fake CD Does, well in Linux you don't need this kind of
> software cause Loopback Devices comes to the rescue.
>
> the first thing you need to do is to create an image of your CD, (HD,DVD, or
> whatever) by
>
> $ cp /dev/cdrom ~/MyCDrom.img
>
> you can replace /dev/cdrom with any device you wont (or the proper one,
> consult your documentation) and ~/MyCdrom.img with any other name or path,
> it's your img file.
>
> after that you just need to mount it, applying that the you have a directory
> to mount it to.
>
> $ mount -o loop=/dev/loop0 ~/MyCDrom.img /mnt/VirtualSystemFolder
>
> of course replace ~/MyCDrom.img /mnt/VirtualSystemFolder with the
> appropriate values.
>
> if it failed try /dev/loop1 or /dev/loop2 instead of loop0 as you might be
> using the loopdevice, issue
>
> $ ls /dev/loop*
>
> to see what loop devices you have.
>
> hope this was useful
>
> PS: Things may be changed on your system, if nothing worked then excuse me
> for bothering you, and Consult the documentation of your distribution for
> the loopback devices
>
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I'm not sure if cp would do the trick
$ cp /dev/cdrom ~/MyCDrom.img
I think you should use dd instead
$dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/MyCDrom.img
And when mounting the file, you should not specify which loop device
to use (ex. /dev/loop0) , you should let the kernel handle that by
doing this
$ mount -t iso9660 -o loop ~/MyCDrom.img /mnt/VirtualSystemFolder
the -t specifies that the image file is an iso9660 formatted file,
just like the cds
correct me if I'm wrong please.
Zaid
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Well, cp Worked with me, I don't know about dd, I've never tried it, about the mount -t option, well in my system, What I know if you omit it, it detects the File system itself, for example, if the file system was not iso9660, like you have the data from a DVD, of a DVD formatted CD, then you should use the udf format, so instead of going into all this issues, just omit the -t option and everything would go alright.
And thanks for the omitting the /dev/loop0 thing I would try it today.
correct me if I'm wrong please
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