ffi Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 Is there a Linux alternative for Alcohol or Daemon tools for virtually mounting CD/DVD(-ROM) images? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 You can do it manually, or do a search for mountiso, which you can integrate into KDE, etc. I've used this, it's pretty cool. The manual method is: mount -o loop -t iso9660 filename.iso /mnt/iso you will have to do "mkdir /mnt/iso" to create the mount point before trying to mount it. Link for mountiso: http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/MountISO-5093.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted April 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 Thanks but unfortunately I´m getting these messages: ERROR: "media:/sda2/Volledige%20Binaries/GTA3%20install%20disk.nrg" is not readable, check file permissions! But I do have read write permission :s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 Is this with mountiso? Or trying to do manually at the command line? I know that nrg support only made it to mountiso recently, so I'm hoping the link I supplied was the latest version :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted April 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 Yeah this was with mount iso. I tried nrg and iso´s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 It works OK for me. I just checked and I'm using mount-iso 0.9.1, you have to mount it with root though, so perhaps it's not working or not integrated with kdesu correctly? Normally, when I mount, it prompts me with root password, and mounts fine. I remember one installation I did, that I got problems like yourself, but this was because it wasn't mounting as root. You might want to remove, and reinstall again. The install routine offers a remove option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted April 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 I tried installing/uninstalling a couple of times, still get the same error; I´m not asked for root privileges either... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 Are you installing as regular user or as root user? I'm going to test now on my machine, and find out which way it should be done to achieve the correct result. EDIT: I just installed as a regular user, and it works perfectly fine on my machine. I chose option 2 for using KDESU. This means that when I mount, I get prompted for root password. And when I unmount I'm also prompted for root password. I can also browse the image fine, so if you're installing as root, try removing your existing install, and install as regular user. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted April 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 as a regular regular user Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 You're sure the ISO/NRG isn't corrupt in any shape or form? Have you tried mounting manually using the command I gave, to see if the iso will mount that way? Mine works both ways for iso's, dont' have any nrg's right now, but I can only think of corrupt iso if it's not mounting manually or with mountiso. I think the first time I did it and it failed, was because I installed as root, when you don't need to do this, as it updates the kde settings for the user you are installing it for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted April 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 I was testing it right now. It actually says the file doesn´t exist. I´m pretty sure it does as it does mount under XP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 Where is the ISO? On an NTFS partition? Try copying over to your Linux partition and mount from there. It might be having problems with NTFS. I've had problems with trying to access large files on NTFS partitions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted April 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 (edited) I´ve tried iso´s on fat32 and ntfs; i´ll give it a whirl from my home edit: yup that did it but I really like to mount from my other partitions because my mandriva install is too small for having dvd iso´s Edited April 7, 2006 by ffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 I'm unsure what to suggest. I've moved completely away from Windows because of the problems I had with large files on FAT32/NTFS being unaccessible. I don't know of a way to fix it, unless there is some sort of mount parameter that will get around it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted April 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 oh well, i´ll just continue gaming from windows then :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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