iso files

[Sean McMahon]

Thanks.  If you have a /mnt/cdrom, do you want the iso to be mounted to that
point or should the iso have its own mount point?
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From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: iso files


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> You create a directory that you will use for mount points.  For
> example, most distros come with a directory called /mnt and under that
> will be several empty directories with appropriate names like cdrom,
> floppy, hd, iso, etc.  then your mount point becomes /mnt/cdrom,
> /mnt/iso, etc.
>
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:07:27AM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote:
> > In your example what is mountpoint?  Is this something you make up?
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> > From: "Thomas Stivers" <stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 8:53 AM
> > Subject: Re: iso files
> >
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> > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 07:37:06 AM -0800, Juan Hernandez wrote:
> > > > how do I mount .iso files in linux?  I'm using fc2
> > >
> > > The short answer, as root do:
> > >
> > > mount -o loop /path/to/file.iso /path/to/mountpoint
> > >
> > > If that doesn't work then you need to insure that the loopback device is
> > > built into your kernel or as a module, and then check out the losetup
> > > man page. More than likely though it will be as simple as shown.
> > >
> > > - -- 
> > > "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
> > > Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
> > > by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
> > >
> > > Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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