[TriLUG] remote-mount of cdrom

[Greg Brown]

> Another alternative is to simply copy the whole ISO as an image and 
> then
> mount the image locally via Loopback.
>
I'm a fan of the make the iso image.. delays over the Internet I think 
would
cause problems when installing via NFS.

On the machine with the cd in the drive locally:

dd if=/dev/dvd of=dvd.iso    # for dvd
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cd.iso   # for cdrom
dd if=/dev/scd0 of=cd.iso    # if cdrom is scsi

ftp, sftp, http download the image, whatever...

then on your local machine:

mount -o loop -t iso9660 ./cdrom.iso /directory/where/you/want/to/mount

Greg