[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to mount ISO image on boot?

Ray Arachelian ray at arachelian.com
Tue Jul 17 16:34:38 UTC 2012


On 07/17/2012 09:29 AM, Aneurin Price wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> >From the command line, I can mount an iso image using mount directly
> (without having to invoke lofiadm):
> # mount -F hsfs /path/to/my.iso /mountpath
>
> I've tried adding a line to /etc/vfstab to have this done automatically on boot:
> /path/to/my.iso - /mountpath hsfs - yes -
>

Try it this way:

mount -o ro -F hsfs  `lofiadm -a /path/to/my.iso` /mountpath

When you're done you'll need to run lofiadm -d /path/to/my.iso after you
unmount it.




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