[Solved]Can't finish The Hobbit installation with virtual drive

lspci · 2012-07-27 04:12:08

Is there any way that I could combine two iso files into one so that I could finish The Hobbit installation process. I always get stuck at the point where it asks for the second disk and gnome-disk-utility won't unmount the first ISO because it's still in use by the installation process.

I tried doing this

$ sudo mount -t iso9660 -o loop disc1-mountpoint
$ sudo mount -t iso9660 -o loop disc2-mountpoint
$ sudo mkisofs -l -J -R -o dvd.iso disc1-mountpoint disc2-mountpoint

and here's what I got

I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings)
Using BILBO000.ICO;1 for  /bilbo.ico (bilbo.ico)
Using AUTORUN000.INF;1 for  /Autorun.inf (Autorun.inf)
genisoimage: Error: '/media/dc/bilbo.ico' and '/media/live/bilbo.ico' have the same Rock Ridge name 'bilbo.ico'.
genisoimage: Error: '/media/dc/Autorun.inf' and '/media/live/Autorun.inf' have the same Rock Ridge name 'Autorun.inf'.
Unable to sort directory 
NOTE: multiple source directories have been specified and merged into the root
of the filesystem. Check your program arguments. genisoimage is not tar.

So here's what I'm currently trying right now.

$ cat HobbitCD1.iso > The_Hobbit.iso 
$ cat HobbitCD2.iso >> The_Hobbit.iso

Okay, so doing that didn't return any errors, now to see if I can finish the installation with the new ISO file.

Nope it still asks for disk 2. So the real question is how can I force the first disk to unmount so that I can replace it with the second disk?

Last edited by lspci (2012-08-23 22:40:14)

Awebb · 2012-07-27 05:55:17

Have you tried using your game CD's to install the game?

lspci · 2012-07-27 23:10:17

Awebb wrote:

Have you tried using your game CD's to install the game?

Sorry, I should have specified that my optical drive doesn't work--and I don't have the funds to replace it--when I first asked. My bad. I could install the game on my desktop and then move it over to my laptop, but it would be nice if I could just do a bit of hacking and be able to install it on my laptop directly.

progandy · 2012-07-27 23:22:59

Why don't you try this?
Manually mount the first iso image, begin installation, forcibly unmount old iso, mount new iso, continue installation.

lspci · 2012-07-28 00:16:33

progandy wrote:

Why don't you try this?
Manually mount the first iso image, begin installation, forcibly unmount old iso, mount new iso, continue installation.

Oh, you can forcibly unmount something?!

(read the manpage for umount)
Oh, whaddaya know, you can.

from umount's manpage

-f      Force umount (in case of an unreachable NFS system).  (Requires kernel 2.1.116 or later.)

I dunno why I didn't think to check the manpage for umount. Sorry, my bad.

EDIT: Okay, so forcibly unmounting the iso didn't work. I was able to force umount, but I couldn't disassociate the /dev/loop2 from the HobbitCD1.iso file. losetup doesn't seem to support forcing. I think that I better just install this under Windows and then copy and paste the installed files to my external hard drive and then move them onto my laptop from there. =/ Not really what I was looking for, though.

Last edited by lspci (2012-07-30 11:53:58)

lspci · 2012-08-23 22:39:53

If you are having a similar problem, but don't have access to a machine with a working optical drive then refer to my

Guide to installing Jedi Knight Dark Forces II w/o optical drive

It'll walk you through the process of setting up everything up and all. I don't know that it will work, but it might, if you were to configure wine to recognize two mountpoints as 'CD-ROM drives' so that you could have both discs mounted at the same time or something like that. (You would of course have to also create a second mountpoint and mount the HobbitCD2.iso to that second mountpoint.)

Last edited by lspci (2012-08-23 22:40:30)

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#1 2012-07-27 04:12:08

[Solved]Can't finish The Hobbit installation with virtual drive

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