12-02-2003
Mounting an ISO image on Solaris
Many software packages can be downloaded in the form of an ISO image. ISO images can also be created from CD and saved as ISO images:
$ cat /dev/somecd > somename.iso
Rather than burning the image to a CD-ROM to access its contents, it is easy to mount the image directly into the filesystem using the lofiadm and mount commands.
Given an ISO image in /export/temp/software.iso, a loopback file device (/dev/lofi/1) is created with the following command:
# lofiadm -a /export/temp/software.iso /dev/lofi/1
The lofi device creates a block device version of a file. This block device can be mounted to /mnt with the following command:
# mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /mnt
These commands can be combined into a single command:
# mount -F hsfs -o ro `lofiadm -a /export/temp/software.iso` /mnt
Other ISO images can be mounted by incrementing the lofi device:
# lofiadm -a /export/temp/software2.iso /dev/lofi/2
# lofiadm -a /export/temp/software3.iso /dev/lofi/3
etc.
Last edited by kduffin; 12-02-2003 at 08:00 AM..
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iso-read
ISO-READ(1) User Commands ISO-READ(1)
NAME
iso-read - reads portions of an ISO 9660 image
SYNOPSIS
iso-read [OPTION...]
DESCRIPTION
-d, --debug=INT
Set debugging to LEVEL.
-i, --image=FILE
Read from ISO-9660 image. This option is mandatory
-e, --extract=FILE
Extract FILE from ISO-9660 image. This option is mandatory.
-k, --ignore
Ignore read error(s), i.e. keep going
--no-header
Don't display header and copyright (for regression testing)
-o, --output-file=FILE
Output file. This option is mandatory.
-U --udf
Contents are in UDF format
-V, --version
display version and copyright information and exit
Help options:
-?, --help
Show this help message
--usage
Display brief usage message
AUTHOR
Rocky Bernstein <rocky@gnu.org>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2003-2005, 2007-2008, 2011-2013 R. Bernstein
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
LAR PURPOSE. Have driver: GNU/Linux ioctl and MMC driver Have driver: cdrdao (TOC) disk image driver Have driver: bin/cuesheet disk image
driver Have driver: Nero NRG disk image driver Default CD-ROM device: /dev/sr0
SEE ALSO
iso-info(1) for information about an ISO-9660 image. cd-read(1) to read portions of an ISO 9660 image.
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