> On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 12:30:28AM +1100, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> > I'm about to make an iso fs for a CD, but I'd like to be able to mount
> > it and tripple check that everything is present and working before I
> > burn a CD.

Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de> writes:
> you can tell vnconfig to use a disktab entry with -t typename, or tell
> it a geometry in-line. See the manual page.

It was the geometry stuff that had me worried that vnconfig was not
what I wanted.

> vnconfig -vc vnd0 /tmp/bla 512/32/64/650 

This did the trick - provided that the last number was correct.
See below.

> should give you something that works. If not, try 2048/8/64/650.

This almost works (again with correct number of cyls) but I got lots
of read errors - 512/32/64/* works better.

I had no trouble testing my iso images on a 1.3.2 box.

The following script - saves having to remember anything :-)

--sjg

:
# mntisofs isofs [mnt [vnd]] 
isofs=$1
mnt=${2:-/mnt}
vnd=${3:-vnd0}

set -- `du -s -k $isofs`
Mb=`expr $1 / 1024`

vnconfig -vc $vnd $isofs 512/32/64/$Mb
mount -r -t cd9660 /dev/${vnd}a $mnt