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Wed Jul 21 22:15:47 2004 How can i mount a ISO Image CD ?
Posted by Tony Lawrence
Search Keys: image,loopback,mount,iso
Referencing: /Bofcusm/217.html

You have an image of a CD or perhaps of a floppy disk. You may have downloaded it, or created it by reading a real device with "dd". Now you want to mount that image. You could write it back out to media and mount that, but that may not be convenient or even possible at the moment.

If you are using Linux, the "loopback" device is what lets you do this. It can be as simple as:

mount -o loop -t iso9660 filename.iso /mnt/iso

but it can also be more complicated if you instead have a dd of a disk: see http://talk.trekweb.com/~jasonb/articles/linux_loopback.shtml

SCO has a "marry" command which serves a similar purpose:

marry -a /tmp/image
mount /dev/marry/tmp/image /mnt

John Dubois has a "mountfile" script for SCO that hides all the nasty details: ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/admin/mountfile

Solaris has a "lofiadm" command that is very similar:

 lofiadm -a image
 mount -o ro -F hsfs /dev/lofi/1 /mnt

and BSD has "vnconfig" which again is very similar.

Mac OS X does it a little differently, using "hdid" to associate a device with an image; see an example at Sample Test Creation

Windows? Darned if I know (but see comment below from Marc).

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CommentsBlog1002 :

"John Dubois has a 'mountfile' script for SCO that hides all the nasty details:..."

Nasty? It isn't that difficult. <Grin> Arcane might be a better way to descibe the mumbo-jumbo that's involved.

--BigDumbDinosaur

---October 20, 2004

For windows you can use "Daemon Tools" a freeware utility that can mount .iso (and other) cd images to a drive map.

--eli


Thu Sep 6 17:51:03 2007: Subject: Mounting a .iso on Windows   Marc
Here's how to mount a .iso on Windows:



http://marc.abramowitz.info/archives/2007/09/06/mounting-an-iso-file-in-windows/

Basically, you use a free utility called Virtual Clone Drive ( http://www.elby.ch/fun/software/index.html).

Thu Sep 6 18:02:03 2007: Subject:   TonyLawrence
Thanks, Marc: that helps!



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