On 6/11/05, Gus Wirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 00:34 06/10/2005 -0700, Ralph Shumaker wrote:
> >Gus Wirth wrote:
> [snip]
> >>If all you need to do is read information from the floppy image, you could
> >>just mount the image file in a loopback mount, like this:
> >>
> >># mount -t auto -o loop floppy-image-file.img /mnt/floppy
> >>
> >>
> >
> >This is good to know. I presume I could substitute "cd-image-file.img
> >/mnt/cd"?
>
> Yes, if the image file is of a standard ISO9660 filesystem.
One more bit of received wisdom:
(assuming /mnt/cd exists)
# mount -t auto -o loop,ro cd-image-file /mnt/cd
Specify "ro" read-only so the system doesn't complain when it discovers
that the cd-image is not a writeable file system.
carl
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