Can't mount a CD

The Orange Peanut · 2008-11-16 02:49:59

I'm trying to mount my old Diablo 1 CD so I can play it (I assume Wine can play it, anyway). Well, I'm using pcmanfm as my file manager, and when I select my CD rom drive it spits out this error message at me

The volume "DIABLO" uses the iso9660 file system which is not supported by your system

Any idea how I can mount it? I googled but didn't find anything...

Ghost1227 · 2008-11-16 03:08:16

did you try explicitly passing the filesystem in the mount command? i.e.: 'mount -t iso9660 <something> <somewhere>'

The Orange Peanut · 2008-11-16 03:14:39

Yes, I did. I'd be happy to post the output.

[nelson@beta-pc ~]$ sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
mount: unknown filesystem type 'iso9660'
[nelson@beta-pc ~]$ sudo mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
mount: unknown filesystem type 'iso9660'
[nelson@beta-pc ~]$

Any ideas?

The Orange Peanut · 2008-11-16 03:51:15

I decided to try this so I could install from the HDD instead of the CD, but I'm having a problem...

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/Diablo.iso

And that worked fine, I have the iso in my home directory now. Unfortunately, when I try to mount it...

[nelson@beta-pc ~]$ sudo mount -o loop ~/Diablo.iso /media/diablo/
mount: could not find any device /dev/loop#

Anyone can help?

The Orange Peanut · 2008-11-16 04:04:37

Whoops, solved. My CDrom was listed in fstab. That was causing the problem. Thanks for trying to help.

Ghost1227 · 2008-11-16 04:05:58

for future reference, you need to modprobe loop to mount an iso

The Orange Peanut · 2008-11-16 04:27:51

Ah, thanks for that. None of the guides I saw told me that I had to do that.

Ghost1227 · 2008-11-16 04:30:44

Only place it's really referenced is http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CD_Burning_Tips

mélodie · 2008-11-16 11:08:18

Hi, you can also add loop to the modules list in /etc/rc.conf to have it loaded at boot.

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