Mounting an ISO Image in Solaris

February 6, 2008 by Isaac

I don't want to start a flame war, but I have never been fond of Solaris. It feels clumsy to me after using Linux for so long. However, my role at work has recently shifted and I have been forced into using Solaris. So, I am going to start posting little Solaris tidbits as I find them.

To mount an ISO image in Solaris it is a two step process. First, you need to create a block device out of the ISO image:

lofiadm -a /path/to/software.iso /dev/lofi/1

Next, perform the actual mount:

mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /mount/point

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