How to mount an ISO image on HP-UX 11.31 version

In HP-UX, we can not mount an ISO directly through commands. We must create a lvol and then copy the contents of the ISO to the lvol with dd. The drawback of this is that we need extra space to do so.

Once the ISO is on the machine, we create the lvol first.

# lvcreate -L 4096 -n iso /dev/vg00
Logical volume “/dev/vg00/iso” has been successfully created with
character device “/dev/vg00/riso”.
Logical volume “/dev/vg00/iso” has been successfully extended.
Volume Group configuration for /dev/vg00 has been saved in
 /etc/lvmconf/vg00.conf
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when the lvol is created, we have to copy the iso and mount the lvol

# dd if=/root/cdrom.iso of=/dev/vg00/riso bs=1024k
172+1 records in
172+1 records out
# mount /dev/vg00/iso /cdrom
# bdf /cdrom
Filesystem          kbytes    used   avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/iso       176860  176860       0  100% /cdrom
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