Hi,

I am running SuSE 9.3 on my machine. Installed it through the cd-version. Now, I need some packcages which come only with dvd. I downloaded the .iso file and mounted it using the command

mount -o loop -t iso9660 suse93livedvd.iso /media/iso

This was done successfully. Then, I read the contents of the iso and found another image file - cloop.img . I want to mount this file and I had gone through a posting on linuxquestions.org explaining how to mount .img files. I tried using

mount -o loop file.img /mnt/somewhere

but it didn't work. The person who posted the solution (win32sux) said that the above command works only if it is not a compressed image.

Could anybody give me any pointers as to how could I mount/extract this image file.

Thanks in advace.

regards,

Harpreet

Copy the file from the iso image to another place on your file system
rename it so that it has the .gz extension (Yes i know , this is not the most elegant way!!)

gunzip file.img.gz

mount -o loop file.img directory

Hi,

I tried what u suggested. But I get the following error:

gunzip: cloop.img.gz: not in gzip format

Can you suggest something else ?

Thanks and regards,

Harpreet

Just mount it without gunzip

does /mnt exist on your computer?
if not create it and try again

Could you please explain to me what the purpose is of creating a directory called mnt in the root ?
You can just mount it on any directory u want!

As (win32sux) stated this should mount your image
mount -o loop file.img /mnt/somewhere

However, I think the problem is that your trying to mount it from within /media/iso. Try moving your .img file to another temporary directory and then try mounting to /mnt/somewhere. Also make sure that /mnt/somewhere exists first.

md /mnt/somewhere

KC

Read the man pages for 'mount' carefully. Once the first .iso is mounted, it should be possible to mount any part of it to another mount point with the command:

mount --bind olddir newdir

where oldir is the file within the .iso, and newdir is the directory to mount the file. Note that you *may* have to use the full path to the file in the mounted .iso, and the full path to the mount point.

I have also got the same problem.

I get permission denied when I try to mount the img file that is on another pc across the network.

Can someone please tell me how you mount an img file that is not on the local machine without having to copy it over first. (coz copying it over first works)

Many thanks

Spaniel is confusing GNU/Linux .img files, which are gzipped ext2 filesystems, with CD images created in Windows, which you cannot directly mount.
See http://linuxreviews.org/howtos/cdrecording/.
It links to an older version of ccd2iso, so you'll need to go to the sourcefourge page, and get version 0.2.
I had to edit the Makefile to use a newer version of automake on my system.

ACLOCAL = ${SHELL} /data/dc/complete/linux/software/ccd2iso/missing --run aclocal-1.6
AUTOCONF = ${SHELL} /data/dc/complete/linux/software/ccd2iso/missing --run autoconf
AUTOMAKE = ${SHELL} /data/dc/complete/linux/software/ccd2iso/missing --run automake-1.6
AUTOHEADER = ${SHELL} /data/dc/complete/linux/software/ccd2iso/missing --run autoheader
became
ACLOCAL = ${SHELL} /data/dc/complete/linux/software/ccd2iso/missing --run /usr/bin/aclocal-1.9
AUTOCONF = ${SHELL} /data/dc/complete/linux/software/ccd2iso/missing --run autoconf
AUTOMAKE = ${SHELL} /data/dc/complete/linux/software/ccd2iso/missing --run /usr/bin/automake-1.9
AUTOHEADER = ${SHELL} /data/dc/complete/linux/software/ccd2iso/missing --run autoheader

I successfully converted a Diablo 2 img file to iso.

I have done it.
1. I used file.img to be my virutal floppy on Dos.
code: "format b:"
(b: is the file.img on my dos)
2. then "mkdir /mnt/floppy"
3. then "mount -t msdos -o loop file.img /mnt/flopppy"

I did it by creating /mnt/img. The I mounted the img file by using mount -o loop ...img /mnt/img
Works like a charm.

impossible . You wont be able to mount an .img file like that

Not any directory. It must be an empty one, otherwise you lose its previous data.

You do not 'lose' that data. It is simply unavailable while the other data is mounted there. Once you umount it, your data becomes available again.