It turns out that the filesystem on the cdrom was iso9660 after all but
with Joliet extensions. In addition I might have been lacking nls_cp437
support as well. I built a new kernel with Joliet and nls and now all the
filenames have mixed case.

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On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, cdowns wrote:

=>"Steven W. Orr" wrote:
=>
=>> [root@syslang /mnt]# mount -t vfat /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
=>> mount: /dev/cdrom has wrong major or minor number
=>>
=>> I'm stil open to ideas. :-)
=>>
=>> On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, cdowns wrote:
=>>
=>> =>"Steven W. Orr" wrote:
=>> =>
=>> =>> I got a cd in the mail from APPGEN. I mount it using:
=>> =>>
=>> =>> mount /mnt/cdrom
=>> =>>
=>> =>> and it seems to mount ok.  Then I cd /mnt/cdrom and I see the following:
=>> =>>
=>> =>> [root@syslang cdrom]# ls
=>> =>> license  readme  setup.sh  setup~1.kde  zag_init  zag_li~1  zagjava.gif
=>> =>> [root@syslang cdrom]#
=>> =>>
=>> =>> The problem is that, according to appgen, the file zag_init is supposed to
=>> =>> be zaG_INIT.  And setup.sh is supposed to be Setup.sh
=>> =>>
=>> =>> I checked the man page formount and I don't see anything wrong. My mtab
=>> =>> file sez:
=>> =>>
=>> =>> /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,nosuid,nodev 0 0
=>> =>>
=>> =>> and my mount command (with no args) sez
=>> =>>
=>> =>> /dev/scd0 on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev)
=>> =>>
=>> =>> I saw that check=strict is the default, so I am out out of ideas. Anybody
=>> =>> have any idea? BTW, APPGEN has no clue at all. "Hey it works for me."
=>> =>>
=>> =>> TIA
=>> =>it is possible that the filesystem on the cd is joliet. and that the
=>> =>file formats have not supported long file name... i would mount the th
=>> =>cdrom like so :
=>> =>
=>> =>mount -t vfat /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
=>> =>
=>> =>just to verify that the filesystem is FAT. if you mount it this way and the
=>> =>filenmes still have ~.1 they do not have long filename and are being treated as
=>> =>dos filnames.
=>> =>
=>> =>i hope this makes sense....  i think ive worded it very strangle...
=>> =>
=>> =>well goodluck.
=>> =>
=>> =>chris
=>> =>
=>> =>
=>
=>well do you have a symlink to /dev/scd0 ? if not then try this:
=>
=>mount -t vfat /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom
=>
=>try this ..
=>
=>chris
=>


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