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I have a mid term exam for my Cyber Security and Network Systems class here in 6 hours, so I must get to sleep, and hope someone can help me out in the meantime! I am currently running Kali Linux using Vbox. Alright, long story short, my VBOXADDITIONS is (read only?) Anyhow, it says Write protected.

I have tried to do mount -o rw,remount /media/cdrom0 It then tells me: mount:cannot remount /dev/sr0 read-write, is write-protected

I then tried to do sudo hdparm -r0 /media/cdrom0 and it says 

/media/cdrom0:setting readonly to 0 (off)
BLKROSET inappropriate ioctl for device
BLKROSET inappropriate ioctl for device

So, in reality, I cant get this dang thing installed correctly to be able to have full screen to utilize the work space at my best ability. Someone, please help, thanks!

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  • Why do you thing you are not able to install it correctly without W support? Addition ISO doesn't need to be edited in order to use it. Simply mount it as cdrom and execute autorun.sh. – Michal Polovka Oct 10 '16 at 06:04
  • From the Wikipedia page: "The name is an acronym which stands for "Compact Disc Read-Only Memory". Computers can read CD-ROMs, but cannot write to CD-ROMs which are not writable or erasable." Good luck with the exam. – waltinator Oct 10 '16 at 06:30
  • Besides that: Kali Linux is not our cup of coffee. – Rinzwind Oct 10 '16 at 07:45
  • http://imgur.com/a/zVU89 – Jar Wolf Oct 10 '16 at 10:14

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CD-ROM devices are, by nature, read-only. Hence the name CD-ROM.

With this in mind, it's not possible to directly alter the data on a CD or a mounted ISO. Instead, you have to extract the ISO or copy the data somewhere else where you can manipulate it:

cp -R /mnt/cdrom/ ~/Desktop/CD-Data/

This limitation was carried over to the ISO system (and VirtualBox) as a way of properly emulating the hardware, including the write protection that comes with it.

However, for the purpose of installing VirtualBox Additions, you don't actually need to be able to write to the ISO/install media. Simply running the install script present within it is more than enough to get your system online properly. You can see here for detailed instructions.

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