RE: Mounting ISO's

["Angel Gabriel" <badmangabriel lycos co uk>]

I made a typo, I meant to say CAN'T see hidden files, which are needed for
the install!

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From: redhat-install-list-admin redhat com
[mailto:redhat-install-list-admin redhat com]On Behalf Of Rick Stevens
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 5:45 PM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: Re: Mounting ISO's


Angel Gabriel wrote:
> I'm attempting to mount an ISO image on my RH server, so that everyone
would
> be able to access the 'CD' and be able to install the apps present, rather
> than me running around the whole place
>
> I mount the CD using
>
> mount -o loop,unhide -t iso9660 -r /location/of/iso /mountpoint
>
> It moounts fine, I can see it fine.... but I can seem to see hidden files
> It doesn't make sense... and it's anoyying the $h17 outta me!

Then turn off the "unhide" option.  You specifically told mount to
allow you to see the hidden files.  By default, it won't

> Just for the record, the CD in question is the Office 2k, ripped using
>
> dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/iso/o2k.iso bs=1440k

For the record, the block size of CDs is 2048 BYTES (2k).  You most
likely have a bad image of the disk.  Try

	dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/iso/o2k.iso bs=2k

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