[gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

[gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

[Kris Kerwin]

Hi folks,

Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: 
extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, 
without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option 
somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord man pages, but I feel 
like I'm searching for a needle in a haystack.

Thanks in advance.

Kris
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Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

[Alexander Skwar]

Kris Kerwin wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: 

You mount it.

mount -o loop file.iso /some/path

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Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

[Gerhard Hoogterp]

On Tuesday 16 May 2006 17:18, Kris Kerwin wrote:

> Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image:
> extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball,
> without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option
> somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord man pages, but I feel
> like I'm searching for a needle in a haystack.

Mount and copy should be an option.. 
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Mounting_Iso_Files should help..

Gerhard


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RE: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

[Lee Packham]

You can do:

mount -o loop /location/of/iso/file.iso /mnt/cdrom

That will mount it on the file system and allow you to grab stuff out.
You might have to specify a filesystem type, can't remember.

If that's the case:

mount -t iso9660 -o loop /location/of/iso/file.iso /mnt/cdrom

Lee.

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Subject: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

Hi folks,

Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: 
extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, 
without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option 
somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord man pages, but I feel 
like I'm searching for a needle in a haystack.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

[Boris Fersing]

2006/5/16, Kris Kerwin <kkerwin@insightbb.com>:
> Hi folks,
>
> Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image:
> extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball,
> without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option
> somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord man pages, but I feel
> like I'm searching for a needle in a haystack.
>
> Thanks in advance.

Hi,
try :

mount myfile.iso /tmp -o loop

Boris.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

[Michael Sullivan]

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 10:18 -0500, Kris Kerwin wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: 
> extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, 
> without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option 
> somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord man pages, but I feel 
> like I'm searching for a needle in a haystack.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Kris

I might have the syntax wrong, since I haven't done this in awhile, but
I think it goes like this:

mount -o loop someImage.iso someDirectory

This will allow you to mount the ISO and browse the files there as if
they were actually on a CD (or extraced on your hard drive).  The files
are read-only while they are inside the ISO image...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

[John J. Foster]

Kris Kerwin wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: 
> extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, 
> without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option 
> somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord man pages, but I feel 
> like I'm searching for a needle in a haystack.
> 
Maybe this will help.

http://www.linuxhelp.net/isos/

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Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

[Rumen Yotov]

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On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 10:18 -0500, Kris Kerwin wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: 
> extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, 
> without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option 
> somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord man pages, but I feel 
> like I'm searching for a needle in a haystack.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Kris
Hi,
Use mount -t iso9660 ISO-file-name.iso /mnt/cdrom -o loop
Then in /mnt/cdrom you'll have ISO-file contents. man mount
HTH.Rumen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

[Peter Ruskin]

On Tuesday 16 May 2006 16:18, Kris Kerwin wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO
> image: extracting the data that is contained within it like a
> tarball, without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an
> option somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord man pages,
> but I feel like I'm searching for a needle in a haystack.
>
modprobe loop
mount <iso-file> /mnt/tmp -t iso9660 -o loop

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Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

[Steven Ringwald]

Kris Kerwin wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: 
> extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, 
> without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option 
> somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord man pages, but I feel 
> like I'm searching for a needle in a haystack.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Kris
>   
mount-tiso9660  -oloop  foobar.iso /mnt/cdrom

 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

[John Jolet]

Kris Kerwin wrote:

>Hi folks,
>
>Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: 
>extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, 
>without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option 
>somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord man pages, but I feel 
>like I'm searching for a needle in a haystack.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Kris
>  
>
mount as loopback.... mount -o loopback i think.  but you have to have 
enabled the loopback fs in the kernel.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

[Alexander Skwar]

Lee Packham wrote:

> mount -o loop /location/of/iso/file.iso /mnt/cdrom
> 
> That will mount it on the file system and allow you to grab stuff out.
> You might have to specify a filesystem type, can't remember.

No, you don't HAVE to. You can, but you're not forced to.

But that's actually nothing special - it's perfectly fine to
mount normal filesystems without specifiyng the filesystemtype.

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[gentoo-user] Re: Unpacking an ISO Image

[Peter]

On Tue, 16 May 2006 10:18:53 -0500, Kris Kerwin wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: 
> extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, 
> without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option 
> somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord man pages, but I feel 
> like I'm searching for a needle in a haystack.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Kris

OR, without using mount at all!

Use mc in a terminal, highlight the file and press [Enter]. It will open
it up like a directory. Other Virtual File System managers can also do
this. Try Nautilus or the KDE file manager. In addition you can use avfs
with fuse. All without having to issue a mount command :)


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Unpacking an ISO Image

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, 16 May 2006 15:40:52 -0400
Peter wrote:

> On Tue, 16 May 2006 10:18:53 -0500, Kris Kerwin wrote:
> 
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: 
> > extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, 
> > without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option 
> > somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord man pages, but I feel 
> > like I'm searching for a needle in a haystack.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > Kris
> 
> OR, without using mount at all!
> 
> Use mc in a terminal, highlight the file and press [Enter]. It will open
> it up like a directory. Other Virtual File System managers can also do
> this. Try Nautilus or the KDE file manager. In addition you can use avfs
> with fuse. All without having to issue a mount command :)
> 
> 

I have often thought that would be useful, but in my mc it doesn't work. what am i missing? I know for example that if I emerge rpm it works on
rpm files. What do I need to do to make it work for iso?

nick@www ~ $ equery uses mc
[ Searching for packages matching mc... ]
[ Colour Code : set unset ]
[ Legend    : Left column  (U) - USE flags from make.conf              ]
[           : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ]
[ Found these USE variables for app-misc/mc-4.6.0-r14 ]
 U I
 + + gpm     : Adds support for sys-libs/gpm (Console-based mouse driver)
 + + nls     : <unknown>
 + + samba   : Adds support for SAMBA (Windows File and Printer sharing)
 + + ncurses : Adds ncurses support (console display library)
 - - X       : Adds support for X11
 - + slang   : Adds support for the slang text display library (it's like ncurses, but different)
 - - unicode : Adds support for Unicode
 - - 7zip    : add support for 7zip archives
 - - debug   : Tells configure and the makefiles to build for debugging. Effects vary across packages, but generally it will at least add -g to CFLAGS. Remember to set FEATURES=nostrip too



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[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Unpacking an ISO Image

[Peter]

On Wed, 17 May 2006 10:02:56 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:

snip...
> I have often thought that would be useful, but in my mc it doesn't work.
> what am i missing? I know for example that if I emerge rpm it works on
> rpm files. What do I need to do to make it work for iso?
> 
> 
It should be built in. As of

2003-04-29  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>

	* configure.in: Add vfs/extfs/iso9660 to AC_CONFIG_FILES. *
	lib/mc.ext.in: Add support for ISO images.

It should be automatic. Just press Enter on the file. F3 will give a
directory of contents.

I currently have version 4.6.1, so try that version first.

Good Luck

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