From nobody@www.freebsd.org Mon May 27 04:42:43 2002 Return-Path: Received: from nwww.freebsd.org (www.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69D1F37B400 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 04:42:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nwww.freebsd.org (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g4RBgchG093295 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 04:42:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nobody@www.freebsd.org) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by www.freebsd.org (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g4RBgcM7093294; Mon, 27 May 2002 04:42:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200205271142.g4RBgcM7093294@www.freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 04:42:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Nik Clayton To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Sysinstall should be able to mount ISO images on DOS filesystems X-Send-Pr-Version: www-1.0 >Number: 38610 >Category: bin >Synopsis: sysinstall(8): should be able to mount ISO images on DOS filesystems >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: randi >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: wish >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon May 27 04:50:01 PDT 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: Sat Jun 06 19:43:08 UTC 2009 >Originator: Nik Clayton >Release: 4.5 >Organization: >Environment: >Description: A colleague who has installed FreeBSD has suggested that if you're doing a DOS installation, it would be easier to download the disk 1 ISO image (or the mini-ISO image) to the DOS partition, instead of having to download the various *.xx files that make up the dists. Getting one file is easier than having to (recursively) download a bunch of files. If Sysinstall then had a "Install from ISO image on DOS partition" option at install time, this would be useful even if the user doesn't have a CD writer. Sysinstall would have to mount the DOS partition, then use the vn device to map to the ISO image (can you do that to files on DOS partitions?), and then mount the vn device as a CD image. Sounds plausible. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-qa Responsible-Changed-By: johan Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Jun 4 17:45:23 PDT 2002 Responsible-Changed-Why: Over to maintainer list http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=38610 Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-qa->qa Responsible-Changed-By: johan Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Aug 24 19:26:04 PDT 2002 Responsible-Changed-Why: Use short names for mailing list to make searches using the web query form work with the shown responsible. This also makes open PRs show up in the summery mail. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=38610 From: Hiten Pandya To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Subject: Re: bin/38610 Ability to mount ISO images on DOS filesystems Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:06:39 -0500 This is indeed possible. I have tested this as the following on 5.0, and had a patch for this on my old hard drive (which unfortunately started scratching and I lost a lot of my (FreeBSD) work... anyway) because it's cost effective as you mention it. ;-) # mount_msdosfs /dev/ad1s2 /dos # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /dos/ftp/releng_5-ftp-disc1.iso md6 # mount_cd9660 /dev/md6 /cdrom I don't mind coming up with a patch again, when I find the time. Cheers. -- Hiten Pandya (hiten@unixdaemons.com, hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org) http://www.unixdaemons.com/~hiten/ Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->randi Responsible-Changed-By: randi Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Jun 6 19:42:56 UTC 2009 Responsible-Changed-Why: Taking this. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=38610 >Unformatted: