Eugene Sevinian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi All, > > Today a friend of mine gave me a CD with raw binary image of hamm on it. > MD5 sum is correct. Would it be possible to use this CD as a hamm > distribution without burning new CD. May be using loopback device or > something like that? > > Any help is greatly appreciated.
Yes, though of course it won't be possible to boot from the CD. Just do: (assuming the cd is already mounted under /cdrom, and the file is "main.raw") mount -t iso9660 -o loop,ro /cdrom/main.raw /mnt Then, assuming this works, the best thing to do is probably to create a specific directory to mount it on (say /mnt/debiancd - of course, you need to umount the cd image first) and then place a line like this is your /etc/fstab: /cdrom/main.raw /mnt/debiancd iso9660 loop,ro,noauto 0 0 Now you can mount it with just "mount /mnt/debiancd". Then, use dselect's "mountable" access method - I suggest this because it's faster than the "mounted" method and accessing things through the loop device is going to slow things down a bit to begin with.
