iso files

[Steve Holmes]

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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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