Hello!

I have a few *.iso CD images and i want to create a memory disks for
each one under AIX 5.1 and mount them as CD9660 file system.

It was really easy to do it under FreeBSD 5.2.1:

mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /image.iso -u 0
mount_cd9660 /dev/md0 /mnt/memdisk

Is it possible to do this under AIX?
If yes, then how can i do this?

Adil wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have a few *.iso CD images and i want to create a memory disks for
> each one under AIX 5.1 and mount them as CD9660 file system.
>
> It was really easy to do it under FreeBSD 5.2.1:
>
> mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /image.iso -u 0
> mount_cd9660 /dev/md0 /mnt/memdisk
>
> Is it possible to do this under AIX?
> If yes, then how can i do this?


You should be able to create a logical volume and mount it as
a CD filesystem. The text file that comes with
cdrecord gives instructions on how to do something similar when
burning a CD. For a spare VG with 128MB PPs, try this:

mklv -y cdimage a_spare_vg 7
dd if=image.iso of=/dev/rcdimage bs=1m
sync
mount -v cdrfs -o ro /dev/cdimage /mnt

-- Jason