Re: Copying ISO Images onto HD
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 02:03:55PM -0400, Phil Beder wrote:
> I'm trying to set up my first Debian server in a mixed
> platform environment(macs & win). Its for a school, and
> we would like to put reference material; ie encyclopedia,
> dictionary, and the like on the server. Many of these
> programs want to be read from CD-ROMs. I know the Windows
> platform has a program that can do this (I believe its
> called paragon) How can this be done on the Linux
> platform?
You will probably want to use samba to do the sharing.
assume /dev/cdrom is 'ln -s' to your real cdrom device (? /dev/hdc ?)
and a mount point of /cdrom exists (mkdir /cdrom && chown you.you
/cdrom)
For each cd-rom of data:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom
mkisofs -J -R /cdrom/ -o /path/to/lots/of/space/name.iso
once the .iso's are made mount them thus:
mkdir /diskname
chmod 755 /diskname
mount -o loop /path/to/lots/of/space/name.iso /diskname
(this does not use any disk space)
configure samba to share /diskname with a meaningful name
(you will probably need to be root or use sudo for this)
look at swat for managing samba shares, if you are not really too
concerned about security; makes life simple if your samba needs are
simple. (debian; apt-get swat; docs in /usr/doc/swat) otherwise edit
/etc/samba/smb.conf by hand and kickstart samba to reread changes.
hope this helps; enjoy!
(have a lot of fun!)
aloha.
dave
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