Mounting of virtual optical drive (iso) in Linux

1. Mount the iso file

Generally, you only need:

# Mount-t iso9660-o loop xxx. iso/mnt/cdrom

You can see the xxx. iso content under/mnt/cdrom.

2. Copy the CD to an iso Image

# Dd if =/dev/hdb of = xxx. iso

Or

# Cp/dev/cdrom xxx. iso

3. The virtual iso is a device.

# Rm-rf/dev/cdrom // Delete the original symbolic connection. You 'd better check it first and remember to restore it :-)

# Ln-s/dev/loop7/dev/cdrom // create a symbolic connection

# Losetup/dev/loop7/path/to/xxx. iso // The virtual iso is the loop7 device.

# Mount/dev/cdrom/mnt/cdrom // mount Virtual Devices

Here are the steps for changing the disk:

# Losetup-d/dev/loop7 // delete a Virtual Device

# Losetup/dev/loop7/path/to/yyy. iso

# Mount/dev/cdrom/mnt/cdrom