tips needed on iso files

[Steve Holmes]

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On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 06:18:29PM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> Hi gang,
> 
> I would appreciate some tips on doing a couple of simple things
> with iso files. I have not done them before, and cannot find what
> I need to know in man pages etc. If you could post a "howto" for
> the following tasks I would appreciate it:
> 
> 1. I have the four iso files for SW 10.0 (thanks, Greg) plus the
> associated md5 files. How do I verify the intactness of my
> downloads? The man page seems to suggest I should have a command
> called "md5" unless I am misreading it, but there ain't no such
The command is md5sum and is quite common; forget which utility
package includes but is pretty basic I think.  You would type for
example:
md5sum  slackware-10.0-install-d1.iso.md5
The output will eventually come up saying the name of the file and if
it is ok or not.

> animal on my system. Related to that, I will then burn a set of
> CD's and will need to verify those burns as well.
> 
> 2. There should be a way to "open" those iso files, copying or
> converting them to the corresponding files and directories,
> without first burning the CD's and then mounting and copying the
> contents back in again. How would you do that, going directly
> from an iso file to a directory structure on the HD?
Create a mount point like '/mnt/iso'.  Then use the following mount
command:
mount -t iso9660 -o loop slackware-10.0-install-d1.iso /mnt/iso
That should hang your ISO image on the loop device for you.  You need
to have loopback support in your kernel.
Then you can cd into /mnt/iso and start shopping!:)

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