Cannot open a non-ISO9660 file

[Tony Nelson]

At 9:22 AM +0800 1/15/06, John Summerfied wrote:
>Paul Smith wrote:
>> On 1/15/06, John Summerfied <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>>>I have got an iso file, which was created on MS Windows. When I try to
>>>>open it (for instance, on file-roller), I get an error message saying
>>>>that it is a non-ISO9660 file. Any ideas how to open/mount that iso
>>>>file on Linux?
>>>
>>>file <whatever>.iso says?
>>
>>
>> Thanks, John.
>>
>> $file filename.iso
>> filename: data
>
>Doesn't look like an ISO then, file should say something like these:
>
>
>[summer at bilby ~]$ file downloads/*.iso *.iso
>downloads/dcc-3.0pr1-i386.iso:    ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'CDROM
>                  ' (bootable)
>downloads/home-3.0.R3.iso:        ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data
>'home3.0                  ' (bootable)
>downloads/pxes-1.0-15PB-tiny.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data
>'ISOPXES                  ' (bootable)
>ComputerDatasafe-1.8.5.iso:       ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'CDROM
>                  '
>minikick.iso:                     ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data
>'MiniKick                  ' (bootable)
>[summer at bilby ~]$
>
>Time to review how it was created.

Would file know if it were a FAT32 .iso?  Such a beast might work on
MSWindows (not that I know).
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