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How do I read files from a CD-R in Linux?
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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No automount perhaps?
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Bizarro-automount is working fine -- I'm able to locate a .inf file, a .exe file, and a .zl file. However, the files I burnt to the CD are a .sh file and a .tgz file.<p style="font-size:1024px">HTML is disabled in signatures </p>Comment
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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 linux
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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.”
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I'd use a proper operating system
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CCP/M ?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 WeinbergComment
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Let me know when someone's invented one.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 ManComment
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CCCP/M? The communist operating system?Originally posted by BlackCat
CCP/M ?
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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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 sympathies
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 WeinbergComment
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I successfully opened the Linux install CD, so the drive appears to be working. I think it's a file format problem.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.
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.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>Comment
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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 WeinbergComment
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How big are the programs? Maybe you can e-mail them?(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
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You're not trying to burn rewritable cd's are you?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.Comment
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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
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