Date: 26 Sep 2002 03:01:22 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc

> > Is there a program for linux that would extract files from a ISO
> > image? Any help would be appreciated.
>
> ... mount it as any other file system using loop device

To expand:

mount -o loop /path/to/file.iso /mnt/somewhere

mounts the ISO file on /mnt/somewhere, using the loop device, and you can browse its contents and do whatever as if it were a CD that was mounted in your CD-ROM drive. Remember that mounting filesystems is a privileged operation, so you'll want to be root when you do this.

If you want to take a data CD-ROM and make an ISO image out of it, it's pretty easy:

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/path/to/file.iso bs=32k

..you can leave the bs=32k off, but putting it in will make the dd go. faster.

Matt G