[rescue] New SPARCStation 10 owner, needs help with some issues though.

[Michael Parson]

On 2016-02-07 03:46, Jerry Kemp wrote:
> I can't help with the linux issues, but I'm having a couple of
> problems myself getting this properly mounted.
> 
> I first did this, which generated this error
> 
> ......................................
> # lofiadm -a Patches_4_0_16_D1.iso
> lofiadm: size of Patches_4_0_16_D1.iso is not a multiple of 512
> #
> ......................................
> 
> Then this got me just a bit further along.
> 
> # dd if=Patches_4_0_16_D1.iso of=Patches_4_0_16_D1-512.iso obs=512 
> conv=sync
> 
> # lofiadm
> Block Device             File                          	Options
> /dev/lofi/1              Patches_4_0_16_D1-512.iso	-
> #
> 
> So I'm now able to address it now as a block device.
> 
> Still unable to successfully mount.
> ......................................
> 
> # mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /mnt
> hsfs mount: /dev/lofi/1 is not an hsfs file system.
> #
> # fstyp -a /dev/lofi/1
> unknown_fstyp (no matches)
> #
> ......................................
> 
> I'm doing this in between other fun while waiting for events to
> transpire during my change window at $WORK, so I probably need to play
> with this a little bit later.

Any chance these are UFS formatted?  ISTR that some Sun CDs had UFS 
rather than hsfs/iso9660 filesystems.

-- 
Michael Parson
Austin, TX
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