Friday, February 13, 2009

Linux : Creating virtual disks from .iso files


Just picked this up from the fedora guide and and thought I might put it here for reference.



Suppose you have a .ISO file whose contents you wish to examine or even need to copy some data out of. The fedora-guide suggests the following approach.



mkdir ~/your_disc/
su -c 'mount file.iso ~/your_disc -t iso9660 -o loop'


then to unmount it



su -c 'umount ~/your_disc/'

Thursday, February 5, 2009

RealPlayer for 64 bit Linux


This is quick note to myself as I keep forgetting it.



The location to download latest nightly builds for RealPlayer that includes a x86_64 version for Linux is
here.



For x86_64 Linux choose the version tagged linux-2.6-glibc23-amd64.