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Accessing an ISO/DVD Deliverable (External Components Installation Guide) (Access_ISO_DVD_Deliverable.htm)

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Accessing the ISO/DVD Deliverable

Accessing the ISO Image

On Windows

Utilities are available that can mount an ISO file as an optical disk drive. The ISO file can then be used as if it were a drive. For example, see Virtual Clone Drive from Elaborate Bytes.

On UNIX

Utilities are available that can make a standard ISO file accessible as a block device, like an optical disk, which can then be mounted and accessed as a file system. See examples below.

Example: Solaris

# mkdir /mnt/iso

# lofiadm -a /tmp/rlty-V14.2.BN.10318.iso /dev/lofi/1

# mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /mnt/iso

# cd /mnt/iso

# ./setup

Example: Linux

# mkdir /mnt/disk

# mount -o loop disk1.iso /mnt/disk

# cd /mnt/disk

# ./setup

Example: AIX

#/usr/sbin/crfs -v jfs -g rootvg -a size=800 -m/cd1iso -Ano -pro -tno -a frag=4096 -a nbpi=4096 -a ag=8

# dd if=image.iso of=/dev/rlv00 bs=10M

# chfs -a vfs=cdrom cd1iso

# mount /cd1iso

# cd /cd1iso

# ./setup

When done unmount and remove the file system:

# rmfs /cd1iso

Mounting the DVD on UNIX

On Solaris the DVD is normally automatically mounted to the /cdrom/cdrom0 directory.
Note: If the DVD is not automatically mounted, it can be mounted manually using:
```
mount -F hsfs -r /dev/sr0 /cdrom
```
On other hosts, create a mount point using:
```
mkdir -p /mnt/cdrom
```
then:
- On AIX manually mount the device 0 CD using:
```
mount -vcdrfs -oro /dev/cd0 /mnt/cdrom
```
- On Linux, manually mount the DVD using:
```
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
```

Once the DVD is mounted, you can change directory to the mount point:

cd /cdrom/cdrom0(Solaris)

cd /mnt/cdrom(other hosts)