On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Teo Fonrouge wrote: > On Wednesday 23 January 2008 02:12:31 pm Teo Fonrouge wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 January 2008 01:17:01 pm clemens@xxxxxxx wrote: > > > For some reason, I seem to have a mental block when trying to do a mount > > > of a loop filesystem. > > > > > > I have a copy of the f8 iso on disk, I would like to look inside of it. > > > Im sure that I can do that with a magic mount ... -o loop= ... but cant > > > seem to get it right. > > > > # mount -o loop yourisofile.iso /home/joe/mnt > > > > That would work. > > There is another way to look inside a iso, in a console (konsole, > gnome-terminal, xterm, run level 3, ...) you can use mc (midnight > commander) to see the tree of a iso and even you can view and copy > the files from inside the iso file. i like the non-root utility recently mentioned -- fuseiso -- which i'd never heard of. that might end up being one of my new bestest friends. i can certainly see its value in shell scripts that need access to image mounting without root privilege. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================
