Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:48:14 -0400 From: Greg Larkin <glarkin@FreeBSD.org> To: Ryan Coleman <editor@d3photography.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Automating mounting of ISO images Message-ID: <4D8A4E7E.2050403@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <21012F71-5038-45F1-98C6-72A0B1239009@d3photography.com> References: <21012F71-5038-45F1-98C6-72A0B1239009@d3photography.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 3/23/11 2:49 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote: > I have a folder full of ISOs that we're sharing on the network instead of having the discs available (seems like a good idea, right?) > > But I want to automate the process on boot instead of having to write a static script to do the work. > > Disc images are located in /mount/disc_images/ (all are ISOs) > They need to mount into /mount/office_files/images/FILENAME [without the .iso extension] > > How can I do this? I've always been given these types of scripts in the past at an old job but I don't have access to those examples anymore. Hi Ryan, You can put something like this in /etc/rc.conf to get the device files created automatically: mdconfig_md0="-t vnode -f /mount/disc_images/Image1.iso" mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /mount/disc_images/Image2.iso" mdconfig_md2="-t vnode -f /mount/disc_images/Image3.iso" Because these devices (/dev/md0, /dev/md1, /dev/md2) will be created before /etc/fstab is processed, you can then add the following entries in that file: /dev/md0 /mount/office_files/images/Image1 cd9660 ro 0 0 /dev/md1 /mount/office_files/images/Image2 cd9660 ro 0 0 /dev/md2 /mount/office_files/images/Image3 cd9660 ro 0 0 Check out the rc(8) man page (http://bit.ly/fuwn5n) for more information about how the startup scripts work, as well as the one that processes the device creation directives above - /etc/rc.d/mdconfig Finally, you can always add your own custom startup scripts to /usr/local/etc/rc.d if you need to do something that the standard startup scripts can't handle. Hope that helps, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. http://twitter.com/sourcehosting/ - Follow me, follow you -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2KTn4ACgkQ0sRouByUApCAiwCfZzO8jnaKIFxuOoZotU8Ac49I MMIAni1KMFDqLe1YeMaS/LZUsgrV1PfY =JUk3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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