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Mounting DVD ISO image
The lofiadm administers lofi, the loopback file driver.
lofi allows a file to be associated with a block device.
That file can then be accessed through the block device.
This is useful when the file contains an image of some filesystem (DVD image),
because the block device can then be used with the normal system utilities for
mounting, checking or repairing filesystems.
Example
- Downlaod sol-10-u6-ga1-sparc-dvd.iso to /tmp
- lofiadm -a /tmp/sol-10-u6-ga1-sparc-dvd.iso /dev/lofi/1 (assign device to file)
- mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /mnt (mount device to /mnt)
- cd /mnt/Solaris_10/Tools/ (go to desired dir)
- ./setup_install_server /export/jumpstart5.10u6 (do what you need to do, say install jumpstart server)
- Once you are done, un-mount /mnt (umount /mnt)
- Also don't forget to remove the file /dev/lofi/1 ( /usr/sbin/lofiadm -d /dev/lofi/1 )
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