[ale] RedHat-6.0?

Michael H. Warfield mhw at wittsend.com
Tue Apr 27 17:14:21 EDT 1999


jeff_hubbs at mcgraw-hill.com enscribed thusly:
> Right - CD burning software usually gives you the option of burning a CD from a
> single image file.  I don't know if there is a way to "mount -t iso9660" that
> file and access the image contents on disk.  I kinda doubt it, although Linux
> holds many surprises.

	"man mount"

	Look for "loop".

	But you have to have the loop back device enabled in the kernel.

> - Jeff
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> Wandered Inn <esoteric at denali.atlnet.com> on 04/27/99 03:26:20 PM
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> To:   Nomad the Wanderer <nomad at orci.com>
> cc:   ale at ale.org (bcc: Jeff Hubbs/Tower)
> 
> Subject:  Re: [ale] RedHat-6.0?
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> Nomad the Wanderer wrote:
> >
> > An Image basically.  Kinda like "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/tmp/img.iso"
> > which can be re-burned and the target is identicle to the source.
> > this is great, especially if the source is a bootable CD-Rom.
> 
> So, is it a cdrom image, or could I download it to a hard drive?  I'd
> like to upgrade, and I have the space.
> 
> >
> > Thus spake Wandered Inn (esoteric at denali.atlnet.com):
> >
> > > Nomad the Wanderer writes:
> > > > Someone on another list I'm on just said they have a RedHat-6.0 ISO.
> > >
> > > Excuse the ignorance, but what do folks mean when the refer to ISO??
> > >
> > > --
> > > Until later: Geoffrey         esoteric at denali.atlnet.com
> > >
> > > It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded economy.
> > >       -- Larry Wall, creator of the programming language Perl
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Robert L. Harris                |   Y1K = Dark Ages and Black Plague
> > Senior System Administrator II  |   Y2K = Windows2000 and BSOD
> >   at Great West Life.           \_
> >
> > http://www.orci.com/~nomad
> >
> > DISCLAIMER:
> >       These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
> >
> > FYI:
> >  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
> 
> --
> Until later: Geoffrey         esoteric at denali.atlnet.com
> 
> It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded economy.
>      -- Larry Wall, creator of the programming language Perl
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