Mounting DVD ISO image

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)
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