Re: [MLUG] Automatically umounting a DVD image?

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Phillip Kelchen wrote:
> 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.

I would make a backup copy of the ISO image, just in case.


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