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Contents

  1. 1 Overview
  2. 2 References
  3. 3 Procedure
    1. 3.1 Create Mount Points
    2. 3.2 Set Up Mounts on Reboot
    3. 3.3 Update Resources Page


Overview

In my quest to have automatic build of operating systems using KickStart, I need some way of mounting the ISO images as local files.

References

Procedure

Create Mount Points

Create the following mount points for each OEL ISO image as follows: 

mkdir /mnt/OEL_6_5_server_x86_64
mkdir /mnt/OEL_7_0_server_x86_64
mkdir /mnt/OEL_7_2_server_x86_64
mkdir /mnt/OEL_7_3_server_x86_64
mkdir /mnt/OEL_7_4_server_x86_64

Set Up Mounts on Reboot

In order to have the OEL ISO images automatically mounted after a reboot, I updated /etc/fstab as follows: 

cat >>/etc/fstab <<DONE
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# ISO disks mounts
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/OVS/iso_pool/V41362-01.iso  /mnt/OEL_6_5_server_x86_64 iso9660 ro,loop 0 0
#/OVS/iso_pool/V46135-01.iso  /mnt/OEL_7_0_server_x86_64 iso9660 ro,loop 0 0
#/OVS/iso_pool/V100082-01.iso /mnt/OEL_7_2_server_x86_64 iso9660 ro,loop 0 0
#/OVS/iso_pool/V834394-01.iso /mnt/OEL_7_3_server_x86_64 iso9660 ro,loop 0 0
/OVS/iso_pool/V921569-01.iso /mnt/OEL_7_4_server_x86_64 iso9660 ro,loop 0 0
DONE

Not all OEL ISO images are mounted because there are only eight (8) /dev/loop devices.

Update Resources Page

I have updated the resources pages with the new mount points.