Read the data from the CD using 'readcd'. It is a utility that comes
with cdrecord or cdparanoia. It will simply copy the CD to a disk file.
I don't know how well that will work for your needs, but it sounds like
it should work just fine.
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 06:43:10AM +0800, BillK wrote:
> 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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