Got myself a DVD i586 of Mandriva ( my machine appears to be a i686 ) and though I can manually mount it and see the directory and file names, I cannot access anything. Why do I want to ? 'Cause it will not boot and allow me to install 10.2. I just thought that accessing the README or INSTALL file might have given me some clue as to what was happening.

I used :

# mkdir /mnt/iso
# mount -o loop -t iso9660 <filename.iso> /mnt/iso
( In my case the file name is : /mnt/dvdcd/Mandriva-Linux-2005-Limited-Edition-DVD.i586.iso )
#          ls -alh
total 335K
dr-xr-xr-x  13 root root 4.0K Apr 13 22:00 ./
drwxr-xr-x  23 root root 4.0K Jul 26 20:31 ../
-r--r--r--  23 root root   65 Feb 11  2004 autorun.inf
-r--r--r--  17 root root  18K Feb  5 08:51 COPYING
dr-xr-xr-x   2 root root 6.0K Apr 13 22:00 Dkms/
dr-xr-xr-x   3 root root 2.0K Apr 13 22:00 doc/
dr-xr-xr-x   3 root root 2.0K Apr 13 22:00 dosutils/
dr-xr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K Apr 13 22:00 Firmware/
-r--r--r--   7 root root  10K Feb 18 04:11 index.htm
dr-xr-xr-x   6 root root 2.0K Apr 13 22:00 install/
-r--r--r--   7 root root 6.8K Apr  8 02:44 INSTALL.txt
dr-xr-xr-x   6 root root 2.0K Apr 13 22:00 isolinux/
dr-xr-xr-x   2 root root 2.0K Apr 13 22:00 lang/
-r--r--r--  10 root root 4.7K Mar 24 07:07 LICENSE.txt
-r--r--r--  23 root root    0 Oct 13  2004 MD5SUM
dr-xr-xr-x   9 root root 2.0K Apr 13 22:00 media/
dr-xr-xr-x   4 root root 2.0K Apr 13 22:00 misc/
dr-xr-xr-x   2 root root  18K Apr 13 22:00 Modules/
-r--r--r--   1 root root 219K Apr 13 22:07 pkg-10.2-Limited-Edition-2005.idx
dr-xr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K Apr 13 22:00 Plugins/
-r--r--r--   7 root root 3.4K Feb  1 23:58 README.txt
-r--r--r--   7 root root  18K Apr 11 20:28 release-notes.txt
-r--r--r--   1 root root   77 Apr 13 22:07 VERSION

Nothing shows up when I use the less command on any of the files.
Any suggestions anyone ?

Further, when I copy the iso over to check out whether or not it had been simply burned as a data file, in re~burning it as a image file, I can only get about 380MB worth of info onto the dvd disc. [ I used k3b ] Yet the copied over iso registers out at 4.4gig .Thanks for DVD-RW discs then.

Er.... and no, it does not appear that the cd image files make up the disc, it appears as if it wants to install from the dvd, or something ??????

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Regards

SnapafunFrank

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