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Mounting an Irix CD on a Mac

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johnsmith
Who joined March 22, 2005, 1:11 a.m.
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Wrote the following at June 10, 2013, 4:17 a.m...
Is this still impossible? Or has anyone got this to work? I need to get some files from an install CD onto my indy.
SAQ
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Wrote the following at June 10, 2013, 6:54 a.m...
Well, you could port the EFS filesystem and SGI disklabel support over from Linux to OS X, or you could boot up Knoppix or other Linux in a VM and get at it that way. I'm lazy - I know what I'd do.

note - not positive that Knoppix still has EFS included. Debian does.

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SunForSun
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Wrote the following at June 10, 2013, 8:11 a.m...
Hi! I use trick :

1. install ubuntu with virtualbox
2. mount iso into ubuntu
3. su - root
4. dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/root/irix_cds/4.iso bs=16k
5. mount -o loop -t efs /root/irix_cds/4.iso /media/a
6. copy content from mounted volume into another dir
7. repeat steps 4 throw 6 for all need iso
8. transfer content from 7 into mac osx folder
9. burn, or use for install on network
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smj
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Wrote the following at June 10, 2013, 4:17 p.m...
Nice summary, SunForSun. And of course that should work whether you're running OSX or Windows.

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johnsmith
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Wrote the following at June 11, 2013, 5:41 a.m...
Ho hum, I have an ISO of IRIX, VirtualBox tells me:

Code:
Failed to open the CD/DVD image /Users/john/Desktop/IRIX-53.iso.
Could not get the storage format of the medium '/Users/david/Desktop/IRIX-53.iso' (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED).


This is trying to attach the ISO to the virtual machine. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Stoo
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Wrote the following at June 11, 2013, 9:18 a.m...
Copy the ISO into the virtual machine and mount it from there...

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