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Linux - Create ISO Image Files and Mount Them
By Edward Stoever |
There are times when physical access to a Linux box is not possible. Still, you may find a need to use a CD for installing or upgrading software. This brief article demonstrates how make image files from a CD and move those files to a remote server. There, the files can be mounted so that their file systems can be accessed just as if the CD were inserted into the CDROM of the remote server.
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The above image demonstrates using the dd command to copy the bytes from a CD to a file. This was done on a local virtual machine - Fedora Core 1. Notice that the CD had to be un-mounted after each CD was inserted. That is because Fedora automatically mounts a CD when it is inserted.
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Next, the scp command is used to copy the iso files to the remote server.
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Finally, the iso images are mounted. Now each file system can be accessed just as if a CD were inserted and mounted.
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