Mounting iso image

chadturner · 06-29-2005, 04:21 AM

The document I'm using to do an install says to use the following command:

mount -t iso9660 -o loop /tmp/xxxx.iso /mnt/cdrom

Where xxxx.iso is my iso file name which I have put in my /tmp/R3GA directory.

I get this:

[root@avayaaes1 etc]# mount -t iso9660 -o loop /tmp/R3GA/swonly-r3-0-0-build-46-20050526.iso /mnt/cdrom
mount: Not a directory

Any ideas?

Mega Man X · 06-29-2005, 04:37 AM

Hi!

Welcome to LQ.org. Make sure that you have the loop module first. I'd also recommend you creating another directory to mount your .iso. I believe that your /mnt/cdrom is linked to /dev/cdrom or something, isn't it? (you can check it with "ls -l /mnt/cdrom"). Well, give this a shot:

modprobe loop
mkdir /media/iso
mount file.iso /media/iso/ -t iso9660 -o loop

Good luck!

chadturner · 06-29-2005, 05:46 AM

[root@avayaaes1 root]# mkdir /media/iso
mkdir: cannot create directory `/media/iso': No such file or directory

I don't think this server likes me. Thanks for your suggestion, but it's not even letting me do that. And the command you wanted me to run returns a 0 found.

hyllplan · 06-29-2005, 06:54 AM

If you do not have the /media dir you have to use mkdir -p /media/iso to create two dir in one smack (/media and /media/iso) :-)

chadturner · 06-29-2005, 07:07 AM

Great suggestion. That's what that part of the problem was. -p works. Now back to the original problem. I'm getting the following:

[root@avayaaes1 root]# mkdir -p /media/iso
[root@avayaaes1 root]# mount -t iso9660 -o loop /tmp/swonly-r3-0-0-build-46-20050526.iso /media/iso
mount: Not a directory

chadturner · 06-29-2005, 07:15 AM

Or this way as well:

[root@avayaaes1 iso]# mount /tmp/swonly-r3-0-0-build-46-20050526.iso /media/iso/ -t iso9660 -o loop
mount: Not a directory

hyllplan · 06-29-2005, 03:13 PM

Have you loaded the loop module? e.g. modprobe loop
Do a lsmod and look if you can see the loop module
sounds strange to me

chadturner · 06-29-2005, 05:30 PM

Yes we had tried that. No difference. Any more ideas?

hyllplan · 06-30-2005, 12:57 AM

Check this thread similar problem, feels like you may have a no good ISO-image?
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=263350

0pal_t0ad · 06-30-2005, 11:09 AM

shouldn't the switches come before the file and dir options?

eg.
mount -t iso9660 -o loop /tmp/swonly-r3-0-0-build-46-20050526.iso /media/iso/

*never mind........i didn't see the post where that was already tried

chadturner · 07-01-2005, 12:12 AM

We finally figured it out tonight, thanks to all. This is a great site to be a part of.

I'll put the details up in the morning. Thanks again to all.

knappster · 09-08-2005, 10:28 AM

I recently re-compiled my kernel from an old config file, but the loop module is not installed. Can anyone tell me where to find it in the menuconfig? That would save me a lot of time searching if anyone knows. Thanks.

-Knappster