Burning ISOs

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(Last edited by Dubiousjim on 5 Nov 2012.)

See:

Arch Wiki on CD Burning
Arch Wiki on DVD Burning Example:
growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=/path/to/dvdimage.iso
Arch Wiki on Copying Install ISOs to a USB key, though note that mkarchiso generates hybrid ISOs, whereas as far as I know, alpine-iso does not

To do the converse operation, copying a CD to an ISO image, just do:

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/path/to/cdimage.iso

To mount an ISO without physically burning it to a CD:

modprobe loop LOOP=`losetup -f` losetup $LOOP /path/to/cdimage.iso mount -t iso9660 -o ro $LOOP /mnt ... # when finished umount /mnt losetup -d $LOOP # this step may happen automatically when you umount

or see Arch Wiki on fuseiso.