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Mount an ISO image on Solaris
Introduction
Many software packages can be downloaded in the form of an ISO image. Rather than burning the image to a CD-ROM to access its contents, it is easy to mount the image directly into the filesystem using the lofiadm and mount commands.
Usage
Given an ISO image in /export/temp/software.iso
, a loopback file device (/dev/lofi/1
) is created with the following command:
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The lofi device creates a block device version of a file. This block device can be mounted to /mnt
with the following command:
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These commands can be combined into a single command:
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Last updated 15 Jun 2010, 07:24 CEST.