From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 13 14: 8:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5659F37B405 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 14:08:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fADM8Qv70851; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 14:08:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 14:08:26 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" X-X-Sender: To: Bill Schoolcraft Cc: "Oliver, Michael W." , Subject: RE: dd if=/cdrom of=file.iso ?? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20011113140441.H867-100000@localhost> X-Ignore: This statement isn't supposed to be read by you X-TO-THE-FBI-CIA-AND-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > In trying to mount the iso in a loopback fashion I'm not getting > anywhere fast, normally I'd use the command (in linux) of: > > mount -o loop blah.iso /mnt/test > > and I'd then be able to access the CD image, in FreeBSD they point > to the manpage of "mount_null" and it falling a little short (with > my help of course) of working, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-virtual.html also: man vnconfig(8) the simple method is to do: "vnconfig vn0 blah.iso", then "mount_cd9660 /dev/vn0c /mnt" if the vn driver is not loaded, use the kernel object. to load it: kldload vn.ko -- jan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message