Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Bret Hughes wrote:
>
> > > mount -t iso9660 isofilename -o loop=/dev/loop0,rw mountpoint
> > >
> >
> > I thought when I saw this, of course, the type option! But no luck. Mount
> > still reports it as rw but I stil get the dreaded read only filesytem. Any
> > thing Else I can try? FWIW this is a redhat 6.0 machine with all the errata
> > upgrades.
>
> You can't mount an iso9660 filesystem read-write. The kernel doesn't (and
> probably won't ever) support it.
>
> iso9660 was never meant to be a writable file system, it's designed to be
> reasonably efficient for write-once, read forever situations.
Thanks Bero, I was beginning to think that. I guess I need to extract the files
from the iso. Is there a way to do that and keep all the symlinks too?
Bret
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