Creating/Mounting ISO's

[Bob Nielsen]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 07:26:01PM +0200, Simon Taplin wrote:
> 1. How do I create an ISO image?

man mkisofs

> 2. How do I then mount this ISO image, I know this is possible but I 
> don't know how.

Use a loopback device--

mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 cd_image /cdrom, where cd_image 
is the name of the ISO image file.

> 3. Is it possible to use ln -s to link the mounted ISO to something like 
> cdrom2?

Create the mount point /cdrom2 and mount it there.

> 4. Is it possible to unmount the ISO image and then mount a 2nd ISO 
> image to cdrom2?

Yes.

See the CD-Writing-HOWTO (install the doc-linux-text package).