[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > when i mount the iso-files on another linux machine, what can i do with it? > an iso file is only a cd-rom file to be burned, but not boot file etc... > first i need the cd files. but the cd files cannot be read on a normal cdrom > drive, because the sparc cd-rom drive has different blocksize. > > please give me some more step by step instructions for the installation.
You can mount an ISO image as a loopback file system with the following command (executed as root) on a Linux system: mount -r -t iso9660 -o loop cd1.iso /image This mounts the ISO9660 file system read-only in the directory /image, which has to exist first. See the man pages for mount for more information. You can then access the files in the CD filesystem from the mount point /image. You can for instance copy the files in the image to another directory (specified by the $destination variable) using tar: ( cd /image ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd $destination ; tar xvf - ) In this way, you can combine different CD images in a common directory. (See http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/lpt/18_16.html for more information on the tar pipeline.) You can then export the image or the $destination directory using NFS, and install the SPARC system using NFS. See the man pages on "exports" and "exportfs" for more information. There is also an NFS howto (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/). The procedure for network installation is detailed in the UltraLinux FAQ (http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html#q_5_9). -- Lieven Buts Brussels Free University -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
