CentOS5.5 mount a local ISO image

Procedure:

I. Mount the iso file to the Mount point

[[Email protected] ~ ] # Mount-o loop/mnt/iso/CentOS5.iso/mnt/cdrom

II. View the Mount status

[[Email protected] ~ ] # Df-h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use % Mounted on

/Dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 19G 3.3G 15G 19%/

/Dev/sda1 99 M 12 M 82 M 13%/boot

Tmpfs 62 M 0 62 M 0%/dev/shm

/Mnt/iso/CentOS5.iso 3.9G 3.9G 0 100%/mnt/cdrom

III. Automatic mounting of iso image files upon startup

In the/etc/fstab table, add the last row and permanently mount the iso file to the system.

[[Email protected] ~ ] # Cat/etc/fstab

/Dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00/ext3 defaults 1 1

LABEL =/boot ext3 defaults 1 2

Tmpfs/dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

Devpts/dev/pts devpts gid = 5, mode = 620 0 0

Sysfs/sys sysfs defaults 0 0

Proc/proc defaults 0 0

/Dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap defaults 0 0

/Mnt/iso/CentOS5.iso/mnt/cdrom iso9660 loop 0 0

CentOS5.5 mount a local ISO image