Mounting folder as CDROM?

[StarMoose]

Is there anyway to trick the system into treating a folder like the CDROM drive?

eg-make it so that when use a file that usually looks for files on the CDROM, it looks at a folder instead.

[bdl]

What exactly do you want to be able to do?

[X_console]

Haven't tried it, but put the file in /mnt and then have /dev/cdrom point to /mnt. Might work, might not.

[StarMoose]

Ok, thanks. One problem though: how do I get it to point to /mnt? If it is a lot of files would having it point to a folder within /mnt achive the same effect?

For the record, I am asking this because installing UT directly from the CD is not working because I am using the version packaged with SoundBlaster Live!.

[X_console]

Usually /dev/cdrom is a symlink to your actual cdrom device, such as /dev/hdc. Check by doing ls -l /dev/cdrom and take note of where it points to. To create a symlink of /dev/cdrom that points to /mnt:

ln -sf /dev/cdrom /mnt

If that doesn't work, you can restore your original symlink:

ln -sf /dev/cdrom /dev/hdc (assuming of course that it used to point to /dev/hdb[b]