Mounting an ISO so it's a CD

Hobbes · 08-07-2003 11:14am #1

I'm trying to install an RPM and it's looking for disk2 of RH9.

I don't have the disk here, so I downloaded the ISO and mounted the ISO with...

mount -t iso9660 -o loop shrike-i386-disc2.iso /mnt/isoimage

However the RPM says it can't see the CD. I am guessing it is looking for the CDRom? How do I get it to look in the other place? Or to fake the other place as CD?

parasite · 08-07-2003 5:46pm

probably missing something, but how come you didn't d/l the individual rpm, it's got to be on some ftp somewhere

lynchie · 08-07-2003 8:31pm

Why is it asking for the 2nd CD? Are you using once of Redhat's GUI tools?

If so, try and do it from a shell. Go into the /mnt/isoimage/RedHat/RPMS directory and run rpm directly from that directory e.g. rpm -vi package_name.rpm

Hobbes · 09-07-2003 4:03pm

Originally posted by parasite
probably missing something, but how come you didn't d/l the individual rpm, it's got to be on some ftp somewhere

Yea I did that afterwards.

Thanks. Just being lazy.

Would still be intresting to know if it is possible.

Zaltais · 09-07-2003 4:43pm

I'm totally guessing here, but could you not just

mount -t iso9660 -o loop shrike-i386-disc2.iso /mnt/cdrom

?????

Hobbes · 09-07-2003 4:50pm

Nope that doesn't work. The GUI doesn't reconise that a CD has been put in.

Zaltais · 09-07-2003 6:58pm

Guessed that, but it was worth a go.....

Gavin · 10-07-2003 8:16am

the GUI may be checking in the /etc/mtab if /dev/cdrom has been mounted. You could have a look at editing this file, but I don't think it's a good idea/practice.

Gav

Mounting an ISO so it's a CD

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