Re: A CD image viewer and extractor?

Robert Heller wrote:

> Ken K <kkauffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> In a message on Sat, 07 Jan 2006 20:58:30 -0500, wrote :
>
> KK> ANTant@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> KK>
> KK> > Whooops! I forgot to mention that I do not have root access. :(
> KK> >
> KK> >
> KK> > In comp.os.linux.misc ANTant@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> KK> >> Hello!
> KK> >
> KK> >> Is there a program, like IsoBuster in Windows
> KK> >> (http://www.isobuster.com/), for Linux? I have some big ISO files,
> and I KK> >> am trying to find specific files to view and extract. I do
> not want to KK> >> burn CDs to get them. It can be command line (easy?) or
> GUI based. KK> >
> KK> >> Thank you in advance. :)
> KK> >
> KK>
> KK> Ask the admin to allow users to mount the cd. /etc/fstab should
> having KK> something to this effect:
> KK>
> KK> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user
> 0 0 KK>
> KK> That should allow you to mount as user.
>
> This only works for actual CDs. The OP only has CD *images* (ISO
> files). Editing /etc/fstab in this way won't work, unless the sysadmin
> puts in a whole slew of lines like:
>
> /path/to/some/cdimage1.iso /mnt/cdimage1 iso9660 noauto,ro,user,loop 0 0
> /path/to/some/cdimage2.iso /mnt/cdimage2 iso9660 noauto,ro,user,loop 0 0
> /path/to/some/cdimage3.iso /mnt/cdimage3 iso9660 noauto,ro,user,loop 0 0
> /path/to/some/cdimage4.iso /mnt/cdimage4 iso9660 noauto,ro,user,loop 0 0
> /path/to/some/cdimage5.iso /mnt/cdimage5 iso9660 noauto,ro,user,loop 0 0
> /path/to/some/cdimage6.iso /mnt/cdimage6 iso9660 noauto,ro,user,loop 0 0
>
> Which is rather a sysadmin nightmare.
>
> It *might* make sense for the sysadmin to create a pair special scripts
> and set the OP up in the /etc/sudoers file. One of the special scripts
> would take two parameters, the ISO file and a mount point (in the
> user's directory) and would mount the ISO file at that mount point.
> The other script would unmount it. The scripts would need to check and
> validate their parameters of course...
>
> KK>
> KK>
> KK>
>
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No I get that. I missed the detail. Eventually, he'll still need this to
work with creating ISOs. Thanks for pointing out the specifics around his
request.
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