From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 4 8:12:42 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 8E32937B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 08:12:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E1B543E7B for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 08:12:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gA4GCTWJ011587; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 11:12:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gA4GCS7I011584; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 11:12:28 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: Peter Leftwich Cc: FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: Re: mount transparently? References: <20021103141810.N3047-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 04 Nov 2002 11:12:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20021103141810.N3047-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com> Message-ID: <4465vdiaab.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 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 Peter Leftwich writes: > Are there any tools out there in FreeBSD-land that let the user mount to > the following example file? > > A filename.iso has been burned to a CD-R; The filename.iso contains lots of > *.zip files that were tarred into a single filename.tar then gzipped into > filename.tgz -- The user then used mkisofs to convert filename.tgz to > filename.iso > > Am I asking too much and at too many levels down? =) It's hard to say, because it's not clear which file you wanted to mount. The .iso file is easy; that's covered in the FAQ. Mounting the tarfile from *within* the ISO isn't currently practical, but if you wanted to do that, it would have made more sense to run mkisofs directly on the zip files. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message