From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 23 23:07:02 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BED9E16A408 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:07:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carpetsmoker@rwxrwxrwx.net) Received: from mail.rwxrwxrwx.net (carpetsmoker.xs4all.nl [82.93.23.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6015813C459 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:07:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carpetsmoker@rwxrwxrwx.net) Received: by mail.rwxrwxrwx.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 510A96D461; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:06:03 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:06:03 +0200 From: Martin Tournoij To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070423230602.GA50915@glitch.rwxrwxrwx.net> References: <48CA2894022F35F0D83C3AFD@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <20070423191854.GD49993@glitch.rwxrwxrwx.net> <3EC8E3B8930912D6CD250E65@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <462D1B2E.8000700@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4204524346E06B04850B6972@utd59514.utdallas.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4204524346E06B04850B6972@utd59514.utdallas.edu> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (FreeBSD) Cc: pauls@utdallas.edu Subject: Re: Mount an iso image? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:07:02 -0000 On Mon 23 Apr 2007 16:04, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Monday, April 23, 2007 21:46:38 +0100 Matthew Seaman wrote: > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA256 > > > >Paul Schmehl wrote: > > > >>Thanks. That's what I was looking for. I wasn't trying to create an > >>iso. I wanted to see what was inside one without burning a CD first. > >>That works perfectly. > >> > > > >You can just use tar(1) to read the contents of an iso nowadays, no > >need to mount anything: > > > >lack-of-gravitas:~/tmp:% tar -tvf 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso | head -20 > >drwx------ 0 0 0 6144 Jan 12 13:47 . > >dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 0 6144 Jan 12 07:41 bin > >dr-xr-xr-x 5 0 0 4096 Jan 12 11:33 boot > >dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 0 2048 Jan 12 07:41 boot/defaults > >dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 0 61440 Jan 12 10:55 boot/kernel > >dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 0 2048 Jan 12 07:38 boot/modules > >dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 0 2048 Jan 12 07:38 dev > >dr-xr-xr-x 18 0 0 12288 Jan 12 07:42 etc > >dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 0 2048 Jan 12 07:38 etc/X11 > >dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 0 2048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/bluetooth > >dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 0 2048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/defaults > >dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 0 2048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/gnats > >dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 0 2048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/isdn > >dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 0 2048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/mail > >dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 0 2048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/mtree > >dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 0 2048 Jan 12 07:38 etc/ntp > >dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 0 4096 Jan 12 07:42 etc/pam.d > >dr-xr-xr-x 6 0 0 2048 Jan 12 07:38 etc/periodic > >dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 0 4096 Jan 12 07:42 etc/periodic/daily > >dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 0 2048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/periodic/monthly > > > >lack-of-gravitas:~/tmp:% tar --version > >bsdtar 1.2.53 - libarchive 1.2.53 > > > Good to know. However, I didn't want to just list the contents. I also wanted to view some of the files' contents. Very useful hint! Thank you! The tar manpage makes no mention of this by the way, it should be updated... You can also extract stuff (although mounting is probably faster in most situations) tar xf Unreal\ Tournament.iso -C /usr/local/share/linux-ut/ --Martin