Re: extracting files from an ISO image

[Werner Puschitz <wp puschitz com>]

On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Paul Greene wrote:

> I downloaded Redhat 7.3 and burned the 3 cd's; disk 2 seems to have been 
> a defective burn. So, I re-downloaded disk 2 again.
> 
> Rather than burn a new cd, is it possible to just extract the needed 
> files from the ISO image? Does such a utility exist?


Here is one method by using the loop device:

# mkdir xx
# mount -t iso9660 file.iso xx -o loop
# cd xx
# ls -l
total 22
dr-xr-xr-x    6 root     root         2048 May 13 20:46 doc
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root         5688 May 13 20:46 index.htm
dr-xr-xr-x    4 root     root         2048 May 13 20:46 install
dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root         2048 May 13 20:46 lgto
dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root         2048 May 14 16:23 response
dr-xr-xr-x   31 root     root         4096 Jun 29 11:17 rr_moved
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root         1163 May 13 20:46 runInstaller
dr-xr-xr-x    7 root     root         2048 May 13 21:30 stage
# df .
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/home/oracle/file.iso
                        662272    662272         0 100% /home/oracle/xx
#

See "man mount" for more information.

Werner