Mount an .iso file for reading?

[Oldrancher]

Is there any mechanism in FreeBSD for reading files contained in a 9660 .iso file?

For those familiar with Solaris, the lofiadm command creates a /dev/lofi node which can be mounted to a mount point, and the file system read as though it were mounted on a removable cd/dvdrom.

A suitable alternative would be a utility that could read the .iso file in a manner similar to tar -x for a tar archive.

 

[ondra_knezour]

From the Handbook

# mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /tmp/image.iso -u 0
# mount -t cd9660 /dev/md0 /mnt

 

[wblock@]

Or from mdconfig(8): mount -t cd9660 /dev/`mdconfig -f cdimage.iso` /mnt

 

[tobik@]

A suitable alternative would be a utility that could read the .iso file in a manner similar to tar -x for a tar archive.

Look no further than tar in that case. On FreeBSD tar can do this too thanks to libarchive

P.S. This is also available on Debian as bsdtar: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/bsdtar

 

[balanga]

Is there any mechanism in FreeBSD for reading files contained in a 9660 .iso file?

If you use Midnight Commander it will automatically view the contents of an ISO by selecting it.