[freespace2] second CD too large?

Diederick de Vries diederick at diederickdevries.net
Sun Oct 15 06:17:35 EDT 2006


Op Sunday 15 October 2006 12:10 schreef 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? (-; 

Yes. I played the game years ago, and thought I could play it again this way.

> 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.

Bummer. But thanks.

Diederick

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