Cannot open a non-ISO9660 file
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Sun Jan 15 06:18:04 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 19:11 -0800, Paul Smith wrote:
> On 1/14/06, 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.
>
> It seems that the file is corrupted, as the burner program on MS
> Windows does not recognize it as a valid ISO file too.
>
You said it was data. Thus it is not an iso9660 filesystem and
_nothing_ will burn it to CD as such.
> Paul
>
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