OT: mount command in SCO Unix

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, May 31, 2008, Scott Walker wrote:
>Scott asked:
>
>>What is the command to mount a cd on an SCO Unix OS5 server.
>>
>>On linux I just look in /etc/fstab to see the settings I need to use.
>>Is there some similar file on the SCO box?
>
>
>Bill said:
>
>The first CD is normally /dev/cd0 so ``mount /dev/cd0 /mnt''
>should do the trick.
>
>The last time I ran an OSR 5.0.6a system's GUI desktop, there was
>on icon on the desktop to mount/unmount the CD (which I used as
>it was on a Compaq box which, as usual for Compaq, does things a
>bit differently).
>
>Scott asks:
>
>That's got me almost there.
>
>I'm trying:
>
>	Mount -f ISO9660 -o lower /dev/cd0 /mnt
>
>The cd mounts and I can cd to it and move around.  Only problem seems to
>be truncated directory and file names.  Is there some option flag I'm
>missing?

I don't remember ever using the -f ISO9660 option, but I think I
have used lower on occassion.

I make no claims to understanding the various encoding options
when making ISO images, taking the mkisofs options rote from
others when creating images for installs and such.  I think the
relevant options I user are ``-l -r -allow-leading-dots'' which
results in some comments by mkisofs saying that I'm creating
images that are not fully ISO compliant.

I think that pure ISO9660 disks have a limited set of file system
names (perhaps MS-DOS 8.3 limits?).

Yup, reading the man page for mkisofs, the ``-l'' option sets it
to allow full 31 character filenames, and the ISO9660 is
restricted to 8.3.

Bill
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