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

[Jerry Kemp]

I did attempt to mount as UFS, and a couple of additional other formats,
all unsuccessful.

Hoping Mike will reply back and provide some commentary concerning the
process that was used to create these images.

Honestly, I was just happy to get past the "multiple of 512" error
message.  First time I had seen that, although, after a duckduckgo
search, I can see that I was far from the first person to encounter this
issue.

Jerry



On 08/02/16 14:57, Michael Parson wrote:
> 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.