[OLUG] iso image

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Tue Jan 4 12:51:27 UTC 2000


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Chris Garrity wrote:

> iso9660 is a cdrom image, you can't read it directly, you can however
> mount the image and then extract its contents with a 'cp' ... there
> should be a directory '/mnt/cdrom' on your filesystem, check for it
> using the command 'ls /mnt' ... if you don't see it then do a 'mkdir
> /mnt/cdrom' ... after you know the directory is present, mount the image
> using the command 'mount -t iso9660 file.iso /mnt/cdrom' ... this loads
> the iso9660 filesystem driver and allows you to 'cd' into '/mnt/cdrom'
> and look around ... commands should be entered without single quotes, of
> course, and you might have to substitute file.iso with the full path
> name to the file you'd like to mount, or run the mount command from
> within the file.iso directory with './' prefixed ... as in 'mount -t
> iso9660 /usr/local/file.so /mnt/cdrom' ... btw, you can mount anywhere
> inside of linux, except you'll loose sight of any files under the mount
> point, temporarily ...
>
> -chris
>
> michael wrote:
> >
> > I downloaded  Coral Linux and it is a iso 96xxx image but i don't know
> > how to use it any ideas. My sister would like to use this but i don"t
> > understand it thanx
> >
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