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

[Michael Stapleton]

Or a job for autofs.

Check out the man page for automount.

Mike


On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 12:43 -0400, Ray Arachelian wrote:

> On 07/17/2012 12:34 PM, Ray Arachelian wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> 
> Sorry, I don't think you can add this to /etc/vfstab - well, you might
> be able to if you could get lofiadm to run before your ISO gets mounted,
> but that's going to be too tricky.
> 
> The easiest way is just to write the command into /etc/rc3.d/S99mountiso
> like this:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> mount -o ro -F hsfs `lofiadm -a /path/to/my.iso` /mountpath
> 
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