How to use the ISO image format

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HP OpenView has made a decision to use an ISO image format on some of our products. The ISO image is not a new format to the industry, however, this is a new addition to the formats that OpenView products use. Some products will continue to use a TAR or ZIP format. The product that you are about to download is in an ISO image format.
Like a .zip or .tar file, an ISO image encapsulates a collection of files. The main difference is that an ISO image contains specific information about how those files are laid out on a CD-ROM. After you have acquired an ISO image, you can access its files immediately, even before you burn it onto a CD-ROM.
On the Windows platform, to use the image directly from your hard drive without burning a physical disc you will need to install 3rd party software that is capable of mounting ISO. Popular software programs like Roxio's Disk Image Loader, Smart-Projects IsoBuster, EZB Systems' UtraISO, MagicISO, Nero's Image Drive and Microsoft's free application Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP enable you to mount disc image files in a virtual drive as if they were physical discs in a physical drive.
On an HP-UX/UNIX/Linux platform, to use the image directly from your hard drive without burning a physical disc you will need to do the following:


HP-UX
nohup pfs_mountd &
nohup pfsd &
pfs_mount -o xlat=UNIX pathToIso mountPoint

Linux
mount -o loop pathToIso mountPoint

Solaris
lofiadm -a pathToIso
mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 mountPoint

To unmount the ISO image do the following:


HP-UX
pfs_umount

Linux
umount mountPoint

Solaris
umount mountPoint

To burn the image directly to a CD, you will need to install 3rd party software that is capable of understanding and burning ISO image files. Most popular CD burning software includes support for burning ISO images. Follow the instructions that came with your CD burning application to create a physical disc from the ISO image.


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