Re: [gentoo-user] having problems getting burned cds to work

Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:

> bitlord wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 May 2015 22:27:39 -0400
> > covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
> >
> >> Hi.  I am trying to burn an iso image to a cd (maybe its actually a
> >> dvd disk), and it boots without any errors, and I can mount the iso
> >> with the loop option, but if I try to mount the cd, it complains
> >> about ufs file systems, and if I try to mount with -t iso9660, it
> >> just says bad file type or bad superblock and the disk is unusable.
> >> Nothing interesting in the logs, it just says the same about ufs and
> >> nothing about iso9660.
> >>
> >> I am using cdrecord from cdrtools-3.01_alpha28 and I am running the
> >> unstable version of gentoo.
> >>
> >> Any assistance would be appreciated.
> >>
> > Sorry, I know nothing about standards, optical media and filesystems,
> > and don't understand how it works, once I had some issues with mounting
> > optical media, also missing a filesystem which I fixed with enabling
> > CONFIG_UDF_FS in kernel. I tried to read about UDF... before replying,
> > but it is too much for me, if I understand it correctly it is not just
> > what is written to the media but also how (different modes, for adding
> > more data later ...), so may be some option while burning media that
> > allows you to use free space left on the disk.
> > If this is not useful just ignore it. ;-)
> >
> >
>
> Same boat here.  From what I understand, if it is more than 2GBs, it
> needs UDF support.  No idea if that applies to ISOs to tho.

But its an iso, and I can mount the .iso via loop, why should it care
about udf support and I think udf is trying to read the cd, because its
apparently not thinking its an iso9660 file system.

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