01-08-2005 18:33									#1
	How do I read files from a CD-R in Linux? Increase Your PM Length

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?

	01-08-2005 18:37									#2
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No automount perhaps?

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

	01-08-2005 18:41									#3
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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.

	01-08-2005 22:00									#4
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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

	01-08-2005 23:25									#5
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Perhaps you need to try with a clean CD (ie nothing on it from a previous burn)

	01-08-2005 23:38									#6
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I'd use a proper operating system

	01-08-2005 23:40									#7
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CCP/M ?

	01-08-2005 23:49									#8
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison I'd use a proper operating system

Let me know when someone's invented one.

	01-08-2005 23:52									#9
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quote: Originally posted by BlackCat CCP/M ?

CCCP/M? The communist operating system?

	01-08-2005 23:56									#10
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison CCCP/M? The communist operating system?

I don't think that Digital Reseach had many communistic sympathies

	01-08-2005 23:58									#11
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quote: 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.

I successfully opened the Linux install CD, so the drive appears to be working. I think it's a file format problem.

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.

quote: Originally posted by pchang Perhaps you need to try with a clean CD (ie nothing on it from a previous burn)

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.

	02-08-2005 00:12									#12
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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.

	02-08-2005 09:06									#13
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How big are the programs? Maybe you can e-mail them?

	02-08-2005 11:23									#14
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quote: 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.

You're not trying to burn rewritable cd's are you?
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.

	02-08-2005 11:57									#15
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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.