In a previous article, I showed how to install the FBReader programme.
I download the April 2010 Dual Layer iso torrent from the Project Gutenberg Site.
I opened the torrent in Bit Tornado (Ubuntu 10.10 comes with this), and downloaded the iso. Took about 6.5 hours on a 3 meg connection. The file is a little over 8 gig.
Once I downloaded the file, I did:
sudo mount -t iso9660 pgdvd042010.iso /mnt -o loop
What does it mean?
the -t tells us the filetype is an iso9660 image (ready to burn to a cd/dvd). It uses the archaic Microsoft 8×3 (i.e. filename.ext) filename format, in all CAPITALS.
The pgdvd042010.iso is the name of the file we downloaded.
/mnt is the mount point.
-o loop tells Linux it is a loopback device. This allows us to mount the iso, so we can access the contents of the iso.
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 50G 21G 26G 45% /
/dev/loop0 7.8G 7.8G 0 100% /mnt
It makes sense to mount the iso image (sorry Windows users), since not all computers have optical disc (cd/dvd) readers. My netbook does NOT have an optical disc, but I could put iso image file there, and access it. Look MA! No CD/DVD Burning required!
Navigate to /mnt (cd /mnt) and launch index.html in this case.
Thanks Joe and Terry
Wayno
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Hi.
Thanks for this. I have added a link to this at http://gutenberg.org/cdproject/
Aaron
That I have seen your project. It is usefull in many ways. Thanks for build-up such project.