Comments on: Howto mount an ISO image in AIX UNIX

By: Scott W.

Scott W. — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:11:05 +0000

loopmount is now available starting with AIX 6.1

By: Karthi

Karthi — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:19:43 +0000

thanks a lot buddy. !!! It really helped me.. I will tell you easy steps for this now..

mklv -y cdlvg -s n -L /dev/cdlvg rootvg 410M hdisk0
dd if=/testjava/new-download/32-bit/cd.cz3q5en.iso of=/dev/cdlvg
mount -v cdrfs -o ro /dev/cdlvg /mnt/iso

By: stef

stef — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:46:58 +0000

hello,
the vfs type cdrom does’nt exist under AIX, the type is cdrfs.

Best regards,

Stef

By: Na

Na — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:21:28 +0000

Nice instructions!
The size of the cd1iso file system needs to
be larger than the iso file.
My iso file was 600+ MB.
For even larger ISO files, for example,
DVD images, use larger ag and nbpi.
to remove the logical volume, use:
rmlv lv00