[NCLUG] Trying to mount and ISO image

[Daniel Miles]

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

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 17:36:57 -0700
"bmc" <brettcrandall at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Hello all.
> I am trying to mount an ISO image so it can be browsed as if it were sitting
> on the cd it came from.
> The problem I am running into is this. Using RedHat 7.2 , mounting the image
> in /mnt/iso the name of the ISO is testiso. So the command I am using  (from
> /home/brett) is mount testiso.iso /mnt/iso -o loop but this tell me that I
> need to specify a filesystem. So (and I'm guessing here) I thought that I
> should use iso9660 to specify the Filesystem. This told me that I had a bad
> superblock or too many filsesystems mounted blah blah blah.
> I have also tried mount -o loop testiso.iso /mnt/iso with no luck.
> My question here is what am I doing wrong? Is there a filesystem I should
> use other than iso9660 ? Do I need to specify a filesystem or am I just
> using the command improperly? I have tried several other combinations as
> well such as  mnt -s....  mnt -t.... using the auto as a filesystem. The
> only one that actually worked ( somewhat) was the proc filesystem but I knew
> I didn't wanna leave it that way. Can anybody help ?
> 
> 
> Brett
> PS in case you wondered yes I am logged in as root.
> 
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