um....
you forgot something....

in order to mount an iso filesystem as a filesystem, you must loop it through 
/dev/loop as such:

mount -t iso9660 -o loop some_iso.iso /mnt/iso

otherwise, mount will bitch about it.

Technomage

On Saturday 03 August 2002 03:53 pm, you wrote:
> The previous two sends are excellant nuts and
> bolts answers. From a more theoretical level,
> some interesting info:
>
> ISO is a reference to ISO standard 9660, which
> is the standard format for CDs (roughly equiv.
> to the "Red Book" standard from Philips?)
>
> .iso's can be mounted! Check this out:
>
> mount -t iso9660 some_cool.iso /mnt/iso
>
> That will mount the file "some_cool.iso" on
> /mnt/iso (you have to create the mount point,
> "/mnt/iso" as you would with a partition first),
> and you can read it like it's a local drive.
>
> cool.
>
> Can you write to a mounted ISO? I've never
> tried.
>
> > Mario Hines wrote:
> > > To All:
> > >
> > >      I need help on this.  I found a site to download
> > > the ISO images for a beta version of Mandrake 9.  Also
> > > the ISO images for the 2 Linux ProSuite ISO images for
> > > the Servers.  I would REALLY like to download them,
> > > but I'm unsure of how to use them once they are
> > > downloaded.  Could you direct me in the right
> > > direction of how to burn them to CD along with any
> > > other files or information that I may need.  Thanks.
> > >
> > > -Mario Hines
>
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