Unpacking isos

[TOTALLYn00b]

Hello all :)

just need a quick answer, is it possible to unpack *.iso files using tools included in slackware 8.1?
If not, were can i get tools to uniso these files?

[bwkaz]

iso's are not compressed. They're a byte-for-byte image of the CD filesystem (CDs now use the ISO-9660 filesystem on them -- older ones used High Sierra or something like that).

You can mount them as a loopback device and see the files in them, but the iso9660 filesystem is read-only so you can't modify the files once it's mounted.

mount -o loop -t iso9660 /path/to/file.iso /mnt/cdrom

Or use another directory instead of /mnt/cdrom -- the important part is, whatever directory you use has to exist.

[TOTALLYn00b]

wow..thx..I didnt know :D
That solved alot of problems