Windows has an excellent program called virtualCD which does just that,
compresses the image as well, and looks like a cdrom to the system
including a drive letter. Bad news is that it wont work under win4lin
... It does work under vmaware, which I use to serve up the images
stored on the linux filesystem. However you can copy the iso of the
cdrom to linux and mount it on a loopback device (see my previous post
on software installation.) I just havent worked out how to compress the
image as well (virtualCD compresses most CD's nearly 2:1)
BillK
Yan Seiner wrote:
>
> OK so I have a hare-brained idea.
>
> My kids have about a dozen CD-based games. It's a pain having to swap
> them all the time; besides, they get all gooey and they're a pain to
> clean and the CD-ROM is noisy and slow to boot.
>
> So I was recompiling my kernel and saw this little tidbit:
>
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP:
> Saying Y here will allow you to use a regular file as a block device;
> you can then create a file system on that block device and mount it just
> as you would mount other block devices such as hard drive partitions,
> CDROM drives or floppy drives.
>
> Here's the idea:
>
> Take an old 6.5 GB HD, create a bunch of CD-ROM images on it, mount them
> via the loopback device as CDs. Then have Win4Lin use them as CD-ROM
> drives.
>
>
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