Anyone heard of an open source tool to read ISO images?

Cole Tuininga colet at code-energy.com
Thu Jan 9 09:39:41 EST 2003


On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 09:13, Hewitt Tech wrote:
> I just ran across a tool called undisker at www.undisker.com that is
> supposed to be able to read from a .iso image file. Normally you would use a
> CD burner to burn the image to a CD but this tool allows you to read the
> contents of the .iso file. You can extract one or more files from the .iso
> file without having to burn it to a CD. Does anyone know of an open source
> version of this tool?

Well, you could compile in loopback device support into your kernel.  It
will allow you to mount an iso image as a filesystem, IIRC.

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