yeah, i'm still quite a newbie, and i've recently learned that you can mount .iso's as part of the file system.
my question is this: is it possible to mount .iso's that are on another computer across the network?

if so, how?

thanks

If the remote filesystem on which the ISO file resides is accessible to you and is mounted, I don't see why not.

Yeah, of course it is. First, you'd need to mount the remote computer's filesystem (NFS/Samba), then you'd mount the iso file. I've not used NFS as of yet, but you can mount Windows Shares (Samba) with:
mount -t smbfs \\bob\share /mnt/samba
and then you would mount the ISO file with
mount -o loop /mnt/samba/isofile.iso /mnt/iso

(Obviously these are fictional examples, you'd need to change \\bob\share to whatever the computer name and share names are, you would need to mount somewhere that already exists, so you would need to make the directory /mnt/samba, and the directory /mnt/iso, but these are general rules for mounting anything...)

Put in /etc/exports the dir name and host to export, like in:


/usr myhost.mydomain.com

Í can't remember exactly if it's correct, cause I don't run NFS since last year (i'm not a sysadmin!), but it might give you an idea.

HTH,

vfs.

thanks for the tips guys