On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 03:15:58PM -0400, Phil Beder wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 21:23:41 +0300
> Amir Tal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Friday 30 August 2002 21:03, Phil Beder wrote:
> > > I'm trying to set up my first Debian server in a mixed
> > > platform environment(macs & win). Its for a school,
> > and
> > > we would like to put reference material; ie
> > encyclopedia,
> > > dictionary, and the like on the server. Many of these
> > > programs want to be read from CD-ROMs. I know the
> > Windows
> > > platform has a program that can do this (I believe its
> > > called paragon) How can this be done on the Linux
> > > platform?
> >
> > with a simple mount command. you simply mount the ISO
> > image to a local
> > directory on the disk, and share it (via samba, for
> > sharing with window$)
> >
> > issue (as root) :
> >
> > mount -o loop /path-to.isoname.iso /mnt/mountpoint.
> > replace isoname.iso with the iso image name, and
> > /mnt/mountpoint with the full
> > path to the directory you mount to.
> >
> > samba sharing is another issue, see www.samba.org for
> > more details, or search
> > for documentation at www.linuxdoc.org .
> >
> > good luck, ;)
> > tal.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Perhaps I asked the question incorrectly. The image is on
> a CD-ROM. I have several disks I wish then students to
> access, however I only have 1 CD-Drive in the machine.
> How can I copy the image to the hard drive as so the
> program will thoink its looking at a CD and not files
> copied from a CD onto a HD?
>
>
Not sure but here is a skeleton for the method I would try:
1. Insert a CD into the drive but don't mount it.
2. Run the command dd with appropriate parameters on the raw CD device
in order to create a file which will be an image of the CD.
3. Mount the image file that you have just created with the loop
device.
4. Share this mounted image by whatever method you are sharing files
with.
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Shaul Karl, [EMAIL PROTECTED] e t
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