2.3. Extracting Red Hat Enterprise Linux boot images

Procedure

1. Ensure that the directory /mnt/iso exists and nothing is currently mounted there.

2. Mount the downloaded image.

   # mount -t iso9660 -o loop path/to/image.iso /mnt/iso

   Where path/to/image.iso is the path to the downloaded boot image.

3. Create a working directory where you want to place the contents of the ISO image.

   $ mkdir /tmp/ISO

4. Copy all contents of the mounted image to your new working directory. Make sure to use the -p option to preserve file and directory permissions and ownership.

   # cp -pRf /mnt/iso /tmp/ISO

5. Unmount the image.

   # umount /mnt/iso