Topic: Linux/Virutal Drive question

[Steve]

playing with it now:

steve@CM-Laptop:~$ cd
steve@CM-Laptop:~$ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/steve/Documents/Downloads/Pure/#readme#/PURE_Mini_Images/NS-PURE_ASSISTENT-poseden.isz
dd: opening `/dev/cdrom': No medium found
steve@CM-Laptop:~$

[Dumah]

Stick a CD rom in the drive, type "df -H" and post the results

[Steve]

steve@CM-Laptop:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             107G   81G   21G  80% /
varrun                982M  220K  982M   1% /var/run
varlock               982M     0  982M   0% /var/lock
udev                  982M   60K  982M   1% /dev
devshm                982M  452K  981M   1% /dev/shm
lrm                   982M   39M  943M   4% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
gvfs-fuse-daemon      107G   81G   21G  80% /home/steve/.gvfs
/dev/scd0             695M  695M     0 100% /media/cdrom0
steve@CM-Laptop:~$


ok so if im learning it would be /dev/scd0 correct? i would *think* that it would actually be /media/cdrom0 because that is "mounted on" but my gut tells me all the hardware is always proceeded by /dev/

[Steve]

just slightly offtopic, my drive is listed as 107G. I have a 120G hdd but in windows and linux i did a full format/partition and it never shows more then 107. i think the rest used to be that "HP Recovery" partition but i got rid of that...

[Dumah]

steve@CM-Laptop:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             107G   81G   21G  80% /
varrun                982M  220K  982M   1% /var/run
varlock               982M     0  982M   0% /var/lock
udev                  982M   60K  982M   1% /dev
devshm                982M  452K  981M   1% /dev/shm
lrm                   982M   39M  943M   4% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
gvfs-fuse-daemon      107G   81G   21G  80% /home/steve/.gvfs
/dev/scd0             695M  695M     0 100% /media/cdrom0
steve@CM-Laptop:~$


ok so if im learning it would be /dev/scd0 correct? i would *think* that it would actually be /media/cdrom0 because that is "mounted on" but my gut tells me all the hardware is always proceeded by /dev/

Yeah, use /dev/scd0 and it should work.

[Dumah]

just slightly offtopic, my drive is listed as 107G. I have a 120G hdd but in windows and linux i did a full format/partition and it never shows more then 107. i think the rest used to be that "HP Recovery" partition but i got rid of that...

You got rid of it, but did you extend the partition to cover the new space?

Try "sudo fdisk -l". It will tell you about each disk and the partitions it holds

[Steve]

  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       13995   112414806   83  Linux
/dev/sda2           13996       14593     4803435    5  Extended
/dev/sda5           13996       14593     4803403+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
steve@CM-Laptop:~$

Anyway i tried scd0 got the no medium error, tried /media/cdrom0 got the "target is folder" error. I tried conerting the images with iat no luck didnt expect it to work....might just need to try my damndest to find a iso of the game and use gmount

[Steve]

fuck they dont have any other copies.....i really dont want to buy another cd of this game. i paid extra to have it from the jump and the puppy f'n eats it UGHH.

Anyone have a windows box that will make me an iso out of a torrent with .isz and .mds images?

[Dumah]

Ok, I've had it with this problem

Lets use a GUI. Go to Applications->Sound & Video->Brasero Disk Burning.

Click on Disk Copy. Set it to read from your CDROM, then set it to write to a File Image. Set the properties to pick the path and filename you want. At the bottom of the dialog set it to save to an ISO file.

[Steve]

we were good up till the properties part, it wont let me select it. probably because theres nothing in the cdrom?

fuuuuuck me hahaha. jesus christ i cant believe im having fun right now

[Dumah]

>>probably because theres nothing in the cdrom?

Holy crap, Professor! Maybe that's why it failed all the other times!!!

 

[Steve]

wth am i supposed to put in there?? so wait do i need just any disk in there to mount an image? What kind of ghetto shit is this??!!

lmfao ok so wait lemme try something

[Dumah]

If you want to read from the CDROM, then you need a CD in the drive

[Steve]

yea i considered that, but the images are on the hdd. I'm used to windows where i use a program to mount an image to a drive, and i never needed a disk in there b/c im not using data to or on an actual cd.

i stuck a cd in and now im waiting to see if it does something or just sits on this prompt

steve@CM-Laptop:~$ dd if=/dev/scd0 of=/home/steve/Documents/Downloads/Pure/#readme#/PURE_Mini_Images/NS-PURE_ASSISTENT-poseden.isz

[Dumah]

In that case....dd is a wast of time, but the mkisofs command will do it.

Do you have the image to mount then?