software for virtual cd in linux
hi,
is there any software that can do a "virtual cd-rom drive" in linux? |
Greetings!
If you want to mount iso images that are lying around on your hdd, you don't need any extra software. Just issue the command mount -t iso9600 /patch/image.iso /mnt/mountpoint Though I guess this will only work with actual iso9660 images. Images with another format probably won't work. Good luck! |
how do i make those iso images?
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I take it you want to create an image from an existing CDROM. To do that you need to mount that CDROM, say to /mnt/cdrom. Then you can create an iso image by issuing
mkisofs -J -o /home/user/yourcdrom.iso /mnt/cdrom Now you should have an image called yourcdrom.iso in your home directory and you can mount this one like you would an actual cdrom in your drive by using the mount command. I strongly suggest you :study: the manual pages for mount and mkisofs for additional options! Good luck! |
i suppose to unmount is just umount /mnt/cdrom
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You can use dd to make one-to-one images of cds:
dd if=/dev/hdc of=/myimage.iso bs=2048 Replace /dev/hdc with your cdrom device if applicable. |
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