I'm trying to install a terrible program on terrible Redhat 8.0. The computer isn't connected to a network, and Linux isn't happy about mounting zip disks for some terrible reason, and so I burnt the terrible program to a CD-R using a Windows box (I'm not allowed to connect a Linux box to the network). The files are there (I've confirmed on another Windows box), but Linux can't find them. What the dillio?
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How do I read files from a CD-R in Linux?
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Have you tried with another CD (to see what is on it) ? or tried to copy those .inf/.exe files ? Could give some sane errormessages - eventually show if the drive are accessed.
Btw. I find it mildly amusing that you are not allowed to connect a linux box to a network that sounds as it's filled with MS boxes. At my work we are changing all our old Solaris servers to linuxWith or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
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Perhaps you need to try with a clean CD (ie nothing on it from a previous burn)“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
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Originally posted by Provost Harrison
I'd use a proper operating system“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
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Originally posted by Provost Harrison
CCCP/M? The communist operating system?
I don't think that Digital Reseach had many communistic sympathiesWith or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
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Originally posted by BlackCat
Have you tried with another CD (to see what is on it) ? or tried to copy those .inf/.exe files ? Could give some sane errormessages - eventually show if the drive are accessed.
The .inf file is just the autorun.inf. The .exe and .zl files don't do anything when I try to "run" them. The .inf, .exe, and .zl files don't show up when I open the CD on a windows box, but they're probably just hidden files.
Originally posted by pchang
Perhaps you need to try with a clean CD (ie nothing on it from a previous burn)<p style="font-size:1024px">HTML is disabled in signatures</p>
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I wsn't so much interested in if you could run them, more if you were able to copy them to f.ex. /tmp on your linux.With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
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How big are the programs? Maybe you can e-mail them?(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."
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Originally posted by loinburger
This was a clean CD. I tried again with a simpler burning program that didn't put on the .exe and .zl files, but met with no success.
That caused me no end of problems in redhat 3.0 (?).
Burning them as write once cd's seemed to fix the read problem for me.
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I have no problems burning CD-RW's in Fedora Core. Use cdrecord to wipe the discs and x-coast to burn them.(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."
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