Mount an iso image?

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Monday, April 23, 2007 21:46:38 +0100 Matthew Seaman 
<m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:

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> Paul Schmehl wrote:
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>> Thanks.  That's what I was looking for.  I wasn't trying to create an
>> iso. I wanted to see what was inside one without burning a CD first.
>> That works perfectly.
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> You can just use tar(1) to read the contents of an iso nowadays, no
> need to mount anything:
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> lack-of-gravitas:~/tmp:% tar -tvf 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso | head -20
> drwx------  0 0      0        6144 Jan 12 13:47 .
> dr-xr-xr-x  2 0      0        6144 Jan 12 07:41 bin
> dr-xr-xr-x  5 0      0        4096 Jan 12 11:33 boot
> dr-xr-xr-x  2 0      0        2048 Jan 12 07:41 boot/defaults
> dr-xr-xr-x  2 0      0       61440 Jan 12 10:55 boot/kernel
> dr-xr-xr-x  2 0      0        2048 Jan 12 07:38 boot/modules
> dr-xr-xr-x  2 0      0        2048 Jan 12 07:38 dev
> dr-xr-xr-x  18 0      0       12288 Jan 12 07:42 etc
> dr-xr-xr-x  2 0      0        2048 Jan 12 07:38 etc/X11
> dr-xr-xr-x  2 0      0        2048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/bluetooth
> dr-xr-xr-x  2 0      0        2048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/defaults
> dr-xr-xr-x  2 0      0        2048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/gnats
> dr-xr-xr-x  2 0      0        2048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/isdn
> dr-xr-xr-x  2 0      0        2048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/mail
> dr-xr-xr-x  2 0      0        2048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/mtree
> dr-xr-xr-x  2 0      0        2048 Jan 12 07:38 etc/ntp
> dr-xr-xr-x  2 0      0        4096 Jan 12 07:42 etc/pam.d
> dr-xr-xr-x  6 0      0        2048 Jan 12 07:38 etc/periodic
> dr-xr-xr-x  2 0      0        4096 Jan 12 07:42 etc/periodic/daily
> dr-xr-xr-x  2 0      0        2048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/periodic/monthly
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> lack-of-gravitas:~/tmp:% tar --version
> bsdtar 1.2.53 - libarchive 1.2.53
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Good to know.  However, I didn't want to just list the contents.  I also 
wanted to view some of the files' contents.

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/