<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>I bought my wife a new laptop, with no CD drive, and am now copying a program off of CD onto USB so she can install a program.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I see a link, but I can't read it under Linux. What is it? Do I need to load a module?<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><pre><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">[10332.385222] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">[10332.385251] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">[10332.387979] ISO 9660 Extensions: IEEE_P1282</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">chris@mechonis:~$ cd /mnt/usb/</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">chris@mechonis:/mnt/usb$ ls -l</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">ls: cannot read symbolic link 'applications': Input/output error</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">total 114892</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">lrwxr-xr-x 1 501 dialout 13 Feb 25 2013 applications</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">-rw----rw- 1 501 dialout 93 Sep 20 2012 autorun.inf</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">-rw-r--r-- 1 root dialout 0 Feb 25 2013 comappletimemachine.supported</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">-rwxrwxrwx 1 501 dialout 1314 Dec 21 2012 copyright.txt</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Feb 20 2013 drivers</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Feb 25 2013 dropdmgbackground</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Feb 25 2013 'silhouette studioapp'</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">-rw-r--r-- 1 501 dialout 117640072 Feb 25 2013 silhouette_studio.exe</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">chris@mechonis:/mnt/usb$ cat applications </span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">cat: applications: Input/output error</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">chris@mechonis:/mnt/usb$ file applications </span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">applications: unreadable symlink `applications' (Input/output error)</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">chris@mechonis:/mnt/usb$</span> <br></pre></div></body></html>