How to: Mounting an ISO image in Solaris

we can use the Loopback File driver to mount an ISO image without having to write the ISO image onto a CD or DVD.

Following procedure should help you mount an ISO image in Sun Solaris

Attach a Block Device

sunsolaris# lofiadm -a /export/software/iso_image.iso /dev/lofi/1

Mount the ISO Image block device

sunsolaris# mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /mnt

Where /mnt is the mount point.

This should mount the ISO image.

To confirm, change directory to /mnt and do a “ls” to lis the files

sunsolaris# cd /mnt

sunsolaris# ls

if at anytime, you want to look at these block devices simply type “lofiadm” command with no arguement.

sunsolaris# lofiadm
Block Device File
/dev/lofi/1 /export/software/iso_image.iso

When we are done with the files on the mounted ISO, we can unmount and detach the Block device we attached earlier:

sunsolaris# umount /mnt

sunsolaris# lofiadm -d /dev/lofi/1

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