SUMMARY: mount loop

From: Joe Rice (jrice@bigidea.com)
Date: Wed Jul 17 2002 - 15:25:34 EDT


thanks to everyone who pointed me to
man lofiadm
and Tim Evans <tkevans@tkevans.com> for the one line solution:
mount -F hsfs -o ro `lofiadm -a /path/to/iso/file` /mount-point

Joe Rice(jrice@bigidea.com)@Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 12:10:19PM -0500:
> hello.
> In the Linux world i can mount via the loop device.
> for example (from RedHat man mount(8)):
>
> mount /tmp/fdimage /mnt -t msdos -o loop=/dev/loop3,blocksize=1024
>
> but, how i use it with Linux and would like to in Solaris8:
>
> mount /tmp/companion.iso /mnt -t iso9660 -o loop=/dev/loop2
>
> so, i can install packages from the companion cd with out
> having the cd (just the iso i made with mkisofs).
>
>
> can this be done in solaris 8?
>
> thanks,
> joe
>
>
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