extract iso image

Mike Hauber m.hauber at mchsi.com
Wed Feb 23 01:40:16 GMT 2005


On Tuesday 22 February 2005 08:14 pm, T.F. Cheng wrote:
> hi, I am not sure if I am doing the right thing. I
> want to extract an downloaded isoimage by first
> mounting it. I tried: mount -t iso9660 -o loop
> image.iso /mnt but turns out I don't have
> mount_iso9660 under /sbin, only mount_cd9660. Is there
> any other way to do this? I am running
> freebsd5.3/i386. Thanks!
>
>
> =====
> Best Regards,
>
> Tsu-Fan Cheng
>

I could be doing things the hard way, but I thought you had to 
first configure the md?  For instance, I pulled the following 
commands from history (just recently upgraded my firewall):

mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /dat1/ISO/obsd_36.iso -u 0
mount_cd9660 /dev/md0 /mnt

HTH,

Mike


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