dd iso image to directory

[n5ryh]

Downloaded iso image file to nfs server, how do I covert
the file to a usable diretory for an nfs install?
Is there more info for dd other than [info dd] ?
Thank you

Mike

[bwkaz]

Don't use dd. :D

Try mount -t iso9660 -o loop=/dev/loop0 /path/to/file.iso /path/to/mount/directory to loopback-mount it. Or just burn it to a CD and mount the CD.

Then, copy the files to the NFS server. You won't preserve the order of them, but there's no way to do that other than to do the loopback-mount (or CD-mount) on the NFS server to begin with.

[The Whizzard]

You'd do it much like mounting a real CD except instead of using /mnt/cdrom as the device you'd use the loopback device and the image. ie.
mount -o loop -t iso9660 image.iso mount_point

Where image.iso is your image and mount_point is your mount point. I normally create a /mnt/loopcd mount point but you can create pretty much anything you wish.

[n5ryh]

I'll give that a try, looks like somthing I can do.

Thank you


Mike