On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 19:11 -0800, Paul Smith wrote: > On 1/14/06, John Summerfied <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > > > > > $file filename.iso > > > filename: data > > > > Doesn't look like an ISO then, file should say something like these: > > > > > > [summer@bilby ~]$ 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@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 >
