Comments on: lofiadm: Solaris Mount an ISO CD Image

By: Michael Dozier

Michael Dozier — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:57:17 +0000

So, after trial and error, here are my findings.
bash-3.2# lofiadm -a /tmp/file_2_1_r4-.iso
-bash-3.2#/dev/lofi/1 (output)
-bash-3.2# mount -F hsfs /dev/lofi/1 /mnt
-bash-3.2#

-bash-3.2# cd /tmp
-bash-3.2# ./setup_install_server /tmp/install
-bash-3.2# cd /mnt/tmp/install

/usr/local/install/Solaris_10/Tools

-bash-3.2# ls INSTALL install_files_remotely

**If this is an OS installation use this path, if this is an application; cd /mnt and execute /usr/sbin/install_pkg

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 23:17:55 +0000

So after this process, one would init 0 and boot /dev/lofi/1 /mnt/image.iso?

By: Pierrot

Pierrot — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:40:35 +0000

Thanks for this !

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 04:10:27 +0000

@mike / Michale,

The faq has been updated. Appreciate your feedback.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:39:29 +0000

As per Mike said above, had same issue :)

By: mike

mike — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:04:53 +0000

The file name argument on lofiadm must be fully qualified and the path must be absolute not relative.

This will not work:

lofiadm -a cd.iso

This will work:

lofiadm -a /tmp/cd.iso