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Date:      Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:58:17 +0300
From:      Igor Robul <igorr@speechpro.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Virtual CD drive for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20060110155817.GC1117@sysadm.stc>
In-Reply-To: <43C3D627.4040808@freebsd.org>
References:  <43C3D627.4040808@freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 03:43:35PM +0000, Mark Ovens wrote:
> Is there such a thing as a virtual CD drive in the Ports. Something that 
> allows you to treat an ISO image file - data or audio - as though it 
> were a real CD in a real drive? Like Nero ImageDrive in Windows.
md(4)

mdconfig -a -t vnode -f your_iso.iso

then it prints name of device (in my case md1)

then 
mount_cd9660 /dev/md1 /mnt

and after you have finished 
umount /mnt
mdconfig -d -u 1



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