Re: [SLE] faking a cdrom

On Friday 27 June 2003 10:37, James Philp wrote:

Dear all,

Here is a more challenging question for the technically minded out there...

Matlab requires its docs cd in the drive before it runs. this is rather inconvenient as i can't play music while working and also it slows it down because it checks for any help on the cd all the time.

so the question is: is there any way to have a copy of the cd on the hard drive mounted as a cdrom - somehow.?..

Sure. Just create an ISO image of the CD, then mount it using the loop option. -- JAY VOLLMER JVOLLMER@CONSOLIDATEDLINT.COM TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK IGNORE FULLWISE