On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 06:38, Torquil Macdonald SÃrensen wrote: > How can a non-root user (so I can't mount anything as a loopback FS) > extract an ISO image without writing and then mounting a CD. > > 'isoinfo' can (as far as I understand) only extract a single file at a > time. I guess it would be possible to use this program in conjunction > with 'awk' to extract a whole ISO-image, but I can't seem to find > anything like that on the net. Eventually I will try to do this myself, > if no other suggestions appear...
I'm not 100% sure if this will work, but you should be able to create an fstab entry to do a loopback mount using a predefined filename. Something along the lines of /home/user/your-image.iso /home/user/image/ iso9660 loop,ro,user,noauto 0 0 Then, anytime 'user' wants to mount an iso image, s/he puts it in their home directory and names it 'your-image.iso' and then does a 'mount /home/user/image'. That SHOULD work, though I haven't tested it so don't hold me to it. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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