Monday, December 14, 2009

Mount an ISO CD/DVD Image on OpenSolaris

lofiadm
- administer files available as block devices through lofi

Add iso file as a block device

# lofiadm -a image.iso /dev/lofi/1

Mount the block device

# mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /mnt

Alternatively, use this combined format:
mount -F hsfs -o ro `lofiadm -a image.iso` /mnt

Unmount and detach the device

Use umount command to unmount image:
# umount /mnt

Now remove/free block device:
# lofiadm -d /dev/lofi/1

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