Creating and mounting cd images on the fly.

Why bother with pesky cd ripper tools?
To create an ISO image:

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/tux/MyCDImage.iso

Where /dev/cdrom is the cdrom device that you are writing from (NOT THE MOUNTPOINT).

Then, to mount a cd image as a FS (Read Only of course):

mount /home/tux/MyCDImage.iso /mnt/FauxCD -t iso9660 -o loop

where /mnt/FauxCD is any empty directory.

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