Friday, February 17, 2006
Mounting Solaris CDROMs: "So you've shelled out $20 for downloading the solaris ISO images... and you suddenly realize you dont have a CDROM burner. You now have a slight problem, because using the normal 'mount a file as a filesystem' trick, only works for the first filesystem in that file.
Happily, there is a workaround that you can try.
To turn a solaris 9 'cd 1 of 1' into two mountable filesystems, do the following:
[first make sure you have 500 megs free in /tmp, or adjust dd command
below to somewhere with more space. Then...]
mkdir /mnt/s0 /mnt/s1
lofiadm -a cd1.iso
mount -o ro -F hsfs /dev/lofi/1 /mnt/s0
df -k /dev/lofi/1 |tail -1 |awk '{print $2}'
dd if=cd1.iso of=/tmp/cd1.s1.img bs=1k iseek=(number from prev line)
lofiadm -a /tmp/cd1.s1.img
mount -o ro -F ufs /dev/lofi/2 /mnt/s1
Note that because the filesystem type is ufs made on sparc, you can only mount it directly on a sparc. You can now run /mnt/s0/Solaris_9/Tools/setup_install_server. This has been shown to work with sol9 FCS, but not neccessarily later releases."
Happily, there is a workaround that you can try.
To turn a solaris 9 'cd 1 of 1' into two mountable filesystems, do the following:
[first make sure you have 500 megs free in /tmp, or adjust dd command
below to somewhere with more space. Then...]
mkdir /mnt/s0 /mnt/s1
lofiadm -a cd1.iso
mount -o ro -F hsfs /dev/lofi/1 /mnt/s0
df -k /dev/lofi/1 |tail -1 |awk '{print $2}'
dd if=cd1.iso of=/tmp/cd1.s1.img bs=1k iseek=(number from prev line)
lofiadm -a /tmp/cd1.s1.img
mount -o ro -F ufs /dev/lofi/2 /mnt/s1
Note that because the filesystem type is ufs made on sparc, you can only mount it directly on a sparc. You can now run /mnt/s0/Solaris_9/Tools/setup_install_server. This has been shown to work with sol9 FCS, but not neccessarily later releases."
# posted by Dr. Martin Menzel @ 12:27 PM 
