How to mount an ISO image on FreeBSD

Posted January 15th, 2008 in Linux/Unix/BSD

A few years ago I posted about howto mount an ISO image with FreeBSD when I was hosting my websites on a FreeBSD 4.11 box. However the method for mounting an ISO image changed in later releases, as advised to me in an email by Leif Neland. Today I was emailed by Rollin Kibbe with instructions about how to mount ISO images with FreeBSD 6.2 so have decided to post them here (and I also recently posted about how to mount ISO images with Linux).

The updated information, as of Freebsd 6.2 is

mdconfig -a -t vnode -f [ISO filename]
mount -t cd9660 /dev/md? [mount destination]

To Remove:

umount [mount destination]
mdconfig -d -u /dev/md?

I haven't had time yet to test this in a FreeBSD virtual machine, so many thanks for Rollin for this information.