Hi A couple of months back I got some good advice from Simon Wood and others about mounting CD-Rom images
[Simon Wood] You can create a binary copy of the contents of a CD >to a file on the disk with: dd if=/dev/hdc of=cd_image_1.iso bs=1024K
assuming /dev/hdc (secondary master) is you cdrom >drive, 'bs' just sets the block size and speeds up the >copy.
Then you can mount this image as if it were a normal >CD with: mount -t iso9660 -o loop >cd_image_1.iso /fake_cdrom1
This works brilliantly but I'm having problems adding these to fstab. Every way I try it doesn't like. If the image is mounted as /cdshare/img1/img.iso can someone suggest the correct instructions to stick in fstab? Thanks James Carter
This one works for me on an MDK7.2 system __BEGIN__ /root/mdk.iso /mnt/mdk iso9660 ro,loop=/dev/loop0 1 1 __END__ Does it work if you mount the image manually? Gary On Wednesday 18 July 2001 1:08 am, James & Cybèle wrote:
Hi A couple of months back I got some good advice from Simon Wood and others about mounting CD-Rom images
[Simon Wood] You can create a binary copy of the contents of a CD >to a file on the disk
with:
dd if=/dev/hdc of=cd_image_1.iso bs=1024K
assuming /dev/hdc (secondary master) is you cdrom >drive, 'bs' just sets
the block size and speeds up the >copy.
Then you can mount this image as if it were a normal >CD with: mount -t iso9660 -o loop >cd_image_1.iso /fake_cdrom1
This works brilliantly but I'm having problems adding these to fstab. Every way I try it doesn't like. If the image is mounted as /cdshare/img1/img.iso can someone suggest the correct instructions to stick in fstab?
Thanks
James Carter
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Hi, Ok, lets see if I can be of help :-). I think this should work...... In your /etc/fstab, you should try adding the following: /dev/fake_cdrom1 /mycdrom iso9660 defaults,umask=022 0 0 (making sure that the above appears on all one line) You will also have to make sure that the file "/dev/fake_cdrom1", is symlinked to where ever the file "cd_image_1.iso" is. You can then save the file, and type in the following: mount -a which should (fingers crossed) mount your image of your cdrom drive. Now, if this doesn't work, there is another solution. You could, put the command: mount -t iso9660 -o loop >cd_image_1.iso /fake_cdrom1 into your "boot.local" file, which would mount this, at every run-level.... I hope that this works though. If it doesn't, I shall have to put my thinking cap back on :-) Let me know how you get on, Regards, Thomas Adam --- James_&_Cybèle <CJC@stonycobbles.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > Hi
A couple of months back I got some good advice from Simon Wood and others about mounting CD-Rom images
[Simon Wood] You can create a binary copy of the contents of a CD >to a file on the disk with: dd if=/dev/hdc of=cd_image_1.iso bs=1024K
assuming /dev/hdc (secondary master) is you cdrom drive, 'bs' just sets the block size and speeds up the >copy.
Then you can mount this image as if it were a normal >CD with: mount -t iso9660 -o loop >cd_image_1.iso /fake_cdrom1
This works brilliantly but I'm having problems adding these to fstab. Every way I try it doesn't like. If the image is mounted as /cdshare/img1/img.iso can someone suggest the correct instructions to stick in fstab?
Thanks
James Carter
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