[freespace2] second CD too large?

[Simon Males]

What does it give if you run 'file' on it.

-- 
Simon Males <sime at anticd.org>


Andrew Turner wrote:
> I had this problem too. Drove me crazy for a long time.
> 
> I couldn't mount it as an ISO on linux or even burn it. Forcing a burn produced coasters.
> 
> I burned it easily on a windows machine, and that mounted with no problems on my linux box.
> 
> Best of luck,
> ~Andrew
> 
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> 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
>