From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 3 6:48:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ACD137B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 06:48:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corten2.billschoolcraft.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DEE343E54 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 06:48:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from corten8.billschoolcraft.com ([192.168.7.8]) by corten2.billschoolcraft.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 17PkUg-0001qB-00 for ; Wed, 03 Jul 2002 06:48:30 -0700 Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 06:56:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-X-Sender: bill@corten8 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting a ISO image without burning In-Reply-To: Message-ID: System-ID: [en] (I; Linux i86pc) 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 At Wed, 3 Jul 2002 it looks like Steven Goodwin composed: > On Fri, 3 Jul 2002, Angelo Turetta wrote: > > > I'm trying to find a way to 'emulate' a cd-rom by mounting its ISO image > > before burning it to a CD-R. > > > > The linux mount(8) has parameters to do it, but it's not supported on > > FreeBSD. > > > > Any hints? > > You can use vnconfig. The man page should sort you out and it also shows > you how to mount iso images in the FreeBSD handbook. > In a nutshell I use a that commmand in a small script to keep a tutorial CD mounted at all times so I can just hit it from my browser's bookmarks to read it. Here is the script and obviously the command. ;) #!/bin/sh # /usr/sbin/vnconfig vn0 /usr/home/wiliweld/ljcd2.iso /sbin/mount_cd9660 /dev/vn0c /mnt/test/ Hope this helps. -- |<--------------------------------72---------------------------------->| Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message