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Install CDROM image as a CD drive in the guest OS?
However I am hoping that with some settings on one of the FreeBSD boxes that we're running, I can always install FreeBSD the same way I would install via FTP from ftp.freebsd.org. I've already mounted the ISO image using vnconfig and extracted all the files into a directory on my /usr.

burning redhat cd
Is there any means to install 5.0 without burning a CDROM or booting from floppy disk? Thx. I don't know whether your kernel has loopback support but you can normally mount an ISO image using the loopback option (incidentally, this is great for playing games that require the CD in the drive.

How to install ISO program download?
Other than that, I was planning on going with Reiser, just because that's what I'm currently using on this machine so far. So, what's the easiest way to install slack on hdb in this situation? Go read how to mount ISO's directly. I thought that I could just mount the ISO (I love Linux) and run setup to install

Boot install CD from boot floppy? possible?
Put an entry in your /etc/fstab which mounts the iso via loopback (can't recall the options right now, check "man fstab" or "man mount" for it) automatically at boot time. Mount the iso. Add the mountpoint as installation source: urpmi.addmedia "Mandriva 2005 DVD" --distrib /mnt/inst_DVD (Change /mnt/inst_DVD to

Redhat 8.0 on DVD
(I am trying to make a script that makes a DVD out of the CD ISO's) Do you use KDE? If so, there is a Service you can install called Mount-ISO Mount/unmount operations can be performed in two different ways: using kdesu or sudo. During the installation you'll be offered to choose a variant to use.

Can't Install Red Hat 8.0 using the ISO images
Rob Is there a tool to mount ISO images for VMS? I'm using the VCD tool on Windows to Test Images But it would be neat to test right on the VMS box Install the lddriver (free from HP) and type: $ ld conn x.iso $ mount/ov=id/media=cdrom ldan: $ dir ldan:[*...] $ dism ldan: $ld disc ldan: eberhard.

Boot install CD from boot floppy? possible?
Write these to CD's and then use your boot disk and install from CD. Doug AFAIK, this is not true. Under linux you can mount ISO files and access the files in it. This method is used to install Would you like to configure additional devices" Maybe you (Steve) have a SCSI system or you're using ATA IDE drives?

Bug#234770: installation-reports: Success on m68k mac
David thunderbol...@hotmail.com comp os linux Shawn Pringle wrote: I am using hte latest Slackware I have downloaded an iso image and my CD-Drive can only read. I want to install from it. I was able to install the A and the D series using this method: mount -o loop install.iso /isoimg -t iso9660 setup.tty (enter

using md-mounted ISO as NFS root for PXE booting and installing
EmilII emil7...@yahoo.com alt linux Noyb <sebas...@hotmail.com> wrote: I want to install Linux using my network connection. So far I created a boot floppy disk including Note that you can mount the ISO-images directly with the "loop" device. Example; mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop ~redhat/iso/cd1.iso /mnt/rh_d1 Emil.

Why I can not install from ISO file?
Siward siward....@freeler.nl linux debian user Hi YouBing, you wrote : I tried to install from harddisk with sarge iso images, but after I start the boot.bat I found I can't using "mount -o loop sarge-i386-1.iso /cdrom" in busybox, I've using "mknod /dev/loop0 b 7 0" I'm wondering where the boot kernel has any loop

Unixware 7.1.1 - mount ISO image?
Hi, I am currently trying to set up an NFS install of Red Hat linux, with the aim of using a Unixware 7.1.1 server to export the required files. I have downloaded the 2 ISO images from the Red Hat ftp site, but need to know how to mount these images for exporting. I know that there is a command in Solaris 8

boot disks/cdroms
I am trying to produce some install disks for Solaris 9. I have the iso files downloaded from the Sun website and am burning them on a linux PC using cdrecord: I can mount the iso image using mount -t auto -o loop sol-9-u7-sparc-v1.iso mnt This only mounts the "iso9660" part (hsfs) and not the SPARC ufs

iso files
You install it, then mount the iso image on the VCD, and it includes the stuff to make the image files bootable. You can then just drag all the files on the VCD to the cd-burner drive I got a lot of ruined disks using the commercial product, but rarely get one using the XP wizard. Hollis D. Paul [MVP - Outlook]

Install Linux using bootp?
Mandrake.iso /mnt/iso Supposedly, an install based on the hd.img thinks that it can mount the iso file; my experience is that it rejects it. Assuming I'm booting from an hd.img-based floppy, where and how do I mount the iso file using your suggested commands?

downloading iso image
LOL If at all possible, download the CLOS 1.2 iso file and burn a CD!! If you don't have a CDROM burner, then there IS a way to d/l the iso file to your hd and "mount" it under your present CLOS install using a/the loopback device and install it from there. I really don't know the steps in this process,

CD-ROM emulation program problems in WinXP
From the manpages I think this should to the trick (untested) mount /my/image.iso /mountpoint -oloop apt-cdrom -d=/mountpoint add And /mountpoint must be How can I let it install from a mounted image? This is what the relevant line in sources.list file looks like: deb cdrom:[APTonCD for - i386 (2007-10-17

Install Linux using bootp?
Zhao YouBing zha...@cad.zju.edu.cn linux debian user I tried to install from harddisk with sarge iso images, but after I start the boot.bat I found I can't using "mount -o loop sarge-i386-1.iso /cdrom" in busybox, I've using "mknod /dev/loop0 b 7 0" I'm wondering where the boot kernel has any loop device support?

10 won't install (SATA)
You didn't say whether you run VMS or ULTRIX on your VAX, but I'll address both ;-) Use F11CD (on the latest VMS CD's) if you want to mount ISO 9660 CD's on VMS. Clients using the Basic Redirector can also, without a service being defined, connect directly to the CD with something like USE ?

Can I use an ISO image directly?
SonnyBlue pvanp...@yahoo.com linux redhat install I'm unable to install RH8.0 using the downloaded ISO images. I successfully created the boot floppy to boot into the Do I have to burn the ISO into the CD-ROM differently or in certain directory? Do I have to mount the ISO image during "Linux:" installation?

Upgrading to 9.1 from ISO's on Windows box.
Now i need the iso file.. is it possible to create an BOOTABLE iso image of the cd solaris software disk 1, using linux? mkisofs? thank you in advance! on You can mount a iso image from the hard drive with somehting like mount -t iso9660 /solaris.iso /mnt/cdrom -o loop (I think) or on Solaris use lofiadm -a