Mounting Vista's "native" format DVDs on Fedora

Ross Clement · 06-04-2008, 04:43 PM

What is the current "state of the art" concerning mounting Vista DVDs on Fedora 8? At present, I can't do so. I've looked up a number of solutions on the net which appear to work for others, mainly on Ubuntu, but they don't work on Fedora.

XavierP · 06-04-2008, 05:37 PM

Which format do they save as? Joliet or something else? If it's non-standard then it's part of the ol' lock-in and you should try to save them as something else.

Ross Clement · 06-05-2008, 03:05 AM

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Originally Posted by XavierP

Which format do they save as? Joliet or something else? If it's non-standard then it's part of the ol' lock-in and you should try to save them as something else.

By default Vista burns DVDs as a non-standard format. On some other versions of linux it is posssible to mount these DVDs by manually mounting them. I couldn't get this to work on FC8.

Here's a page from a Ubuntu forum where it's described how to mount the DVDs. None of these commands worked for me.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...us/+bug/106910