Eugene Sevinian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi All,
Today a friend of mine gave me a CD with raw binary image of hamm on it.
MD5 sum is correct. Would it be possible to use this CD as a hamm
distribution without burning new CD. May be using loopback device or
something like that?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Yes, though of course it won't be possible to boot from the CD.
Just do: (assuming the cd is already mounted under /cdrom, and the
file is main.raw)
mount -t iso9660 -o loop,ro /cdrom/main.raw /mnt
Then, assuming this works, the best thing to do is probably to create
a specific directory to mount it on (say /mnt/debiancd - of course,
you need to umount the cd image first) and then place a line like this
is your /etc/fstab:
/cdrom/main.raw /mnt/debiancd iso9660 loop,ro,noauto 0 0
Now you can mount it with just mount /mnt/debiancd.
Then, use dselect's mountable access method - I suggest this because
it's faster than the mounted method and accessing things through the
loop device is going to slow things down a bit to begin with.
