Cannot open a non-ISO9660 file

[Paul Smith]

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.

Paul