[jwhat]

HI DevelMaster,

if you have an IRIX CD you wish to mount on an ubuntu box then:
0. make sure you have xfs file system utils installed
1. dd to create image of CD on disk
2. loop mount it

So for any current Ubuntu release:

Code:

# sudo apt install xfsprogs
# sudo dd if=/dev/cd0 of=irix-cd-01.img
# sudo mkdir /mnt/IRIXCD
# sudo mount -t efs -o ro,loop irix-cd-1.img /mnt/IRIXCD
# ls /mnt/IRIXCD
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The reason you are using type efs rather than xfs is because efs preceded xfs and to maintain compatibility for older SGI/IRIX machines CD were always written as efs image.

Cheers from Oz,


jwhat/John