Mounting ISO Image Files On Solaris

May 4, 2007 | Filed Under All Stories, Data and Technology 

More and more, software is distributed in the form of a downloadable ISO image. This is handy because you can then burn it to a CD or DVD, but many times you just want to install it without having to make a disk first. Linux makes this fairly easy, but it’s a little trickier with Solaris. You have to use the “lofiadm” command to first create a block device for the image before you can use “mount” to mount it as a filesystem. Here is the commands.

Make the block device with “loviadm”:
lofiadm -a /path/to/your/image.iso /dev/lofi/1

Mount the image as a read-only filesystem:
mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /mountpoint

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3 Responses to “Mounting ISO Image Files On Solaris”

  1. Solaris Annoyances on May 9th, 2007 12:56 pm #

    Creating a Jumpstart server from Solaris 9 ISO’s…

    Did you know you can just download iso images from SUN and mount them over a loopback device? I usually don’t need to do this because someone has the CD images. But today I needed the new Solaris 9 09/05 HW release for the V445 I am working on….

  2. Mounting ISO Image Files On Solaris | IDGLabs.COM - tips, tools and resource on April 16th, 2008 4:14 am #

    [...] Source:http://spiralbound.net/2007/05/04/mounting-iso-image-files-on-solaris [...]

  3. cherif on August 23rd, 2008 3:33 am #

    ok, I have mounted the .iso image of the solaris 10 bootable cd, now how can boot from it ti install the soalris 10 os


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