Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 14:08:26 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> Cc: "Oliver, Michael W." <oliver.michael@gargantuan.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: dd if=/cdrom of=file.iso ?? Message-ID: <20011113140441.H867-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111131324100.8209-100000@localhost.localdomain>
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On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > In trying to mount the iso in a loopback fashion I'm not getting > anywhere fast, normally I'd use the command (in linux) of: > > mount -o loop blah.iso /mnt/test > > and I'd then be able to access the CD image, in FreeBSD they point > to the manpage of "mount_null" and it falling a little short (with > my help of course) of working, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-virtual.html also: man vnconfig(8) the simple method is to do: "vnconfig vn0 blah.iso", then "mount_cd9660 /dev/vn0c /mnt" if the vn driver is not loaded, use the kernel object. to load it: kldload vn.ko -- jan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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