[Sunhelp] Mounting up .ISO images as filesystems?

[Doug McLaren]

On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 12:35:01AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:

| On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 10:42:07PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
| > I've got an .ISO (iso9660 format) CD-ROM image file, but currently no
| > burner to burn it to - anybody know of a way under Solaris to mount
| > this puppy up on a readable filesystem so I can copy the files off
| > of it?
| > Bill
| 
| Its not possible to loopback-mount an ISO9660 file as a read-only
| filesystem on Solaris yet (that I know of)

That's unfortunate.

Actually, I think somebody made a loopback device for Solaris that
would allow you to do this (perhaps the author of cdrecord?  He does
lots of neat stuff like that) but I can't find it now for the life of
me.

If you have a Linux box kicking around, this sort of thing is easy ...

   mount -r -t iso9660 -o loop /tmp/file.iso /cdrom

Of course, that doesn't really answer your question, but it may be
useful to somebody at some point ...

| but I was able to get
| what I needed by using the "isoinfo" command (part of the cdrecord/
| mkisofs package, )

That's useful.

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Doug McLaren, dougmc at frenzy.com
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