-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 06:18:29PM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > Hi gang, > > I would appreciate some tips on doing a couple of simple things > with iso files. I have not done them before, and cannot find what > I need to know in man pages etc. If you could post a "howto" for > the following tasks I would appreciate it: > > 1. I have the four iso files for SW 10.0 (thanks, Greg) plus the > associated md5 files. How do I verify the intactness of my > downloads? The man page seems to suggest I should have a command > called "md5" unless I am misreading it, but there ain't no such The command is md5sum and is quite common; forget which utility package includes but is pretty basic I think. You would type for example: md5sum slackware-10.0-install-d1.iso.md5 The output will eventually come up saying the name of the file and if it is ok or not. > animal on my system. Related to that, I will then burn a set of > CD's and will need to verify those burns as well. > > 2. There should be a way to "open" those iso files, copying or > converting them to the corresponding files and directories, > without first burning the CD's and then mounting and copying the > contents back in again. How would you do that, going directly > from an iso file to a directory structure on the HD? Create a mount point like '/mnt/iso'. Then use the following mount command: mount -t iso9660 -o loop slackware-10.0-install-d1.iso /mnt/iso That should hang your ISO image on the loop device for you. You need to have loopback support in your kernel. Then you can cd into /mnt/iso and start shopping!:) - -- HolmesGrown Solutions The best solutions for the best price! http://ld.net/?holmesgrown -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA4fV5WSjv55S0LfERAhAcAKCAjPcJJKCJfpZZDlZgAUVcwW5JewCfcE3c 2MQPlaorbVtCHEdDKEjCUeE= =K091 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
