Re: [MLUG] Automatically umounting a DVD image?

[Phillip Kelchen <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Monday 16 January 2006 10:20, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
 Mark Rages wrote:
 > On 1/16/06, Phillip Kelchen <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
 >>I have a little problem. My laptop's CD drive gave up the ghost and the
 >>distribution I use, SuSE 10.0, uses the install CDs to install some of the
 >>packages. My computer is old and I don't want to spend $100+ to buy an
 >>external drive. I'll replace the computer this fall.
 >>
 >>So I downloaded the install DVD ISO image and if I mount that image, I can
 >> add that to the installation sources list in YaST and it works just fine.
 >> I know that if I make a script and put it in /etc/init.d I can get the
 >> ISO image mounted at every boot. What I want to do is be able to umount
 >> the image when I shut down the computer because I heard you can mess up
 >> things if you do not umount a mounted ISO image when you shut down.
 >> First, is that true? And secondly, where would I put a umount script to
 >> umount the image upon shutdown?
 >>
 >>Phillip
 >
 > I'm sure your distribution already has scripts to umount everything on
 > shutdown.
 >
 > I don't understand what things could get messed up by not umounting
 > the image, but mount it read-only just in case.

 Is it even possible to mount an ISO image as writable?

I don't think so, and if it did, that would corrupt it. And I don't want to 
have to download the image a third time (the first attempt had a bad checksum 
and would not mount). 3.6GB takes a while to get, even on a 5Mbps connection.

Phillip


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