Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:30:34 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Howard Jones <howie@thingy.com> Cc: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] Mount an iso image? Message-ID: <20070425143034.GE50353@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <462F0FFE.70205@thingy.com> References: <48CA2894022F35F0D83C3AFD@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <20070423191854.GD49993@glitch.rwxrwxrwx.net> <3EC8E3B8930912D6CD250E65@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <20070423204514.GD50353@dan.emsphone.com> <462F0FFE.70205@thingy.com>
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In the last episode (Apr 25), Howard Jones said: > Dan Nelson wrote: > > If that's all you need, there's an even easier way: "tar tvf > > mycd.iso", since libarchive understands the iso9660 filesystem > > format :) > > That's a useful trick! > > Is there an equivalent for ufs filesystems? I'd like to be able to > extract files from a floppy image without needing root privs... I'm > writing a script to prepare a PXE-install environment from a set of > release ISOs. You could try using a "dump -f - ufsfs.img | restore -if -" pipeline; dump to read the filesystem and restore -i to give you a simple navigation interface. Libarchive only handles the iso9660 format because it happens to be readable sequentially with no seeking. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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