[freespace2] second CD too large?

[James Le Cuirot]

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 11:43:13 +0200
Diederick de Vries <diederick at diederickdevries.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to install Freespace2 on my Linux box by mounting ISO
> files of the three CDs. While the first CD mounts okay, the second
> one gives a problem:
> 
> root at zaphod[5]:~ # mount -o loop -t iso9660
> FREESPACE2_DISC2.iso /mnt/lp1 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad
> superblock on /dev/loop0, missing codepage or other error
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg | tail  or so
> 
> This ISO file is also much larger (782,4MB) than the other two
> (<700MB). Am I using the wrong filesystem? Can anyone tell me how I
> should mount this one?
> 
> Thanks,
> Diederick

That came from a torrent, didn't it? (-; As far as I could tell, that
ISO isn't even an ISO, it's in some other weird format. I saw through
Google that a number of people couldn't get it to work, even on
Windows. I never did find a solution.

James