2.3. Extracting Red Hat Enterprise Linux boot images

You can extract the contents of a boot image.

Procedure

Ensure that the directory /mnt/iso exists and nothing is currently mounted there.
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.
Create a working directory where you want to place the contents of the ISO image.
```
$ mkdir /tmp/ISO
```
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
```
Unmount the image.
```
# umount /mnt/iso
```