On Feb 22, 2005, at 7:14 PM, T.F. Cheng wrote:
hi, I am not sure if I am doing the right thing. I want to extract an downloaded isoimage by first mounting it. I tried: mount -t iso9660 -o loop image.iso /mnt but turns out I don't have mount_iso9660 under /sbin, only mount_cd9660. Is there any other way to do this? I am running freebsd5.3/i386. Thanks!
Is my best guess you have been reading Linux docs to have tried a "loop" option to mount in FreeBSD. Isn't done that way here.
What you have to do is create a memory disk which is backed by a file. Maybe someone else knows how to do it as non-root:
% su Password: # mdconfig -a -t vnode -o readonly -f dvd_image.iso md0 # mount -t cd9660 /dev/md0 /mnt # ls -CF /mnt audio_ts/ jacket_p/ video_ts/ # umount /mnt # mdconfig -d -u md0 # mdconfig -l
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What happens is that mdconfig creates the md0 device which contains the contents of the specified file. Once the file is turned into a device it can be handled same as any other device.
Be sure to deallocate the device after you are finished as Unix doesn't release a file's space allocation until the last process closes it.
-- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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