>Creating and mounting cd images on the fly.
>
>Why bother with pesky cd ripper tools?
>To create an ISO image:
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>dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/tux/MyCDImage.iso
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>Where /dev/cdrom is the cdrom device that you are writing from (NOT THE MOUNTPOINT).
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>Then, to mount a cd image as a FS (Read Only of course):
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>mount /home/tux/MyCDImage.iso /mnt/FauxCD -t iso9660 -o loop
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>where /mnt/FauxCD is any empty directory.

That's sweet...one additional note, you will need to have the loopback filesystem type support compiled into your kernel or laoded as a module...mine didn't have that by default, though with cdripping and all becoming more common, the later pre-built kernels probably do have it enabled -- not sure...

Nice tip!

JoeK