Re: ISO's


Subject: Re: ISO's
From: Jim Gribbin (jewelrysupplier@gci.net)
Date: Fri Mar 14 2003 - 17:16:14 AKST


I just used this on my RH 7.3 box:

[root@jimsajsws root]# mount -t iso9660 -o loop,ro /cdtmp/track-01.img
/mnt/cdrom

Jim Gribbin

On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 16:35, Adam Elkins wrote:
> Ok, ran into a problem. Mounting this way isn't allowing me to write to the
> file. I tried adding the -w and -rw switchs, but it complained about 'special
> device "loop" not existing.
> Though, Im not sure I put it in the right place.
>
> mount -w -o loop cdimage.iso /mnt
> mount -ow loop cdimage.iso /mnt
>
> Neither worked.
>
> Adam
>
>
> On Friday 14 March 2003 09:36 am, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Adam Elkins wrote:
> > > Mount the iso to a loopback device? Can I have an example?
> > > The only loopback I know of on my machine is eth.
> >
> > I missed the rest of the converstation, but mounting an image (whether it's
> > an iso, partition, floppy, etc.) is done as simply as:
> >
> > mount -o loop cdimage.iso /mnt
> >
> > That assumes you've already grabbed an image of your cd using the cat or dd
> > command, etc., and saved it as cdimage.iso.
> >
> > --Arthur Corliss
> > Bolverk's Lair -- http://arthur.corlissfamily.org/
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>
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