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.?.. i'm running suse 8.2/xd2 thanks, j. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
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
thanks. i'm new to linux though so i don't know how to do this. can you guide me slowly through this please... j. --- Jay Vollmer <jvollmer@visi.com> wrote:
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
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The 03.06.27 at 08:37, James Philp wrote:
so the question is: is there any way to have a copy of the cd on the hard drive mounted as a cdrom - somehow.?..
Copy the CD image somewhere: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cd_image Mount that image: mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 cd_image /media/cdrom (source: CD-Writing-HOWTO.gz) But, if the program (matlab?) reads the cdrom device directly, it will fail your purpose. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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