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How do I mount an ISO image under solaris?

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How do I mount an ISO image under solaris?

by  kduffin  Posted    (Edited  )
You can mount an ISO image directly using the lofiadm and mount commands.

Given an ISO image in /export/home/user/program.iso, a loopback file device (/dev/lofi/1) is created with the following command:

lofiadm -a /export/home/user/program.iso /dev/lofi/1

The lofi device creates a block device version of a file. This block device can be mounted to /mnt with the following command:

mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /mnt

These commands can be combined into a single command:

mount -F hsfs -o ro `lofiadm -a /export/home/user/program.iso` /mnt

You can mount multiple iso images by incrementing /dev/lofi/[x] and using differing mount points.
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