I had several ISO images lying around on my desktop, and decided to go through each image and purge the ones I no longer need. Several image files weren’t labeled, so I decided to fire up the isoinfo utility to figure out what the mystery ISO images were. The first image I checked was a Solaris 10 update 4 DVD, as you can see from the “Volume id” field in the isoinfo “-d” (print primary volume descriptor) output:
$ isoinfo -d -i 1.iso |more
CD-ROM is in ISO 9660 format
System id: Solaris
Volume id: SOL_10_807_X86
Volume set id:
Publisher id:
Data preparer id:
Application id: MKISOFS ISO 9660/HFS FILESYSTEM BUILDER & CDRECORD CD-R/DVD CRE
ATOR (C) 1993 E.YOUNGDALE (C) 1997 J.PEARSON/J.SCHILLING
Copyright File id:
Abstract File id:
Bibliographic File id:
Volume set size is: 1
Volume set sequence number is: 1
Logical block size is: 2048
Volume size is: 1327235
El Torito VD version 1 found, boot catalog is in sector 42171
NO Joliet present
Rock Ridge signatures version 1 found
Eltorito validation header:
Hid 1
Arch 0 (x86)
ID ''
Key 55 AA
Eltorito defaultboot header:
Bootid 88 (bootable)
Boot media 0 (No Emulation Boot)
Load segment 0
Sys type 0
Nsect 4
Bootoff A4BC 42172
To double check that the volume descriptor was correct, I also ran isoinfo with the “-l” (list files) option to generate a file listing of each ISO image:
$ isoinfo -l -i 1.iso |more
Directory listing of /
d--------- 0 0 0 4096 Aug 16 2007 [ 632 02] .
d--------- 0 0 0 4096 Aug 16 2007 [ 632 02] ..
---------- 0 0 0 2048 Aug 16 2007 [ 42171 00] .CATALOG
---------- 0 0 0 92 Jun 12 2007 [ 42231 00] .CDTOC
d--------- 0 0 0 2048 Aug 16 2007 [ 42045 02] .INSTALL
---------- 0 0 0 0 Aug 16 2007 [ 42173 00] .INSTALL_CONFIG
---------- 0 0 0 419 Jun 12 2007 [ 42232 00] .SLICEMAPFILE
d--------- 0 0 0 2048 Aug 16 2007 [ 42041 02] BOOT
---------- 0 0 0 6128 Jun 12 2007 [ 42233 00] COPYRIGHT
---------- 0 0 0 257 Aug 16 2007 [ 42236 00] INSTALLER
---------- 0 0 0 459760 Jun 12 2007 [ 42237 00] JDS-THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME
d--------- 0 0 0 2048 Aug 16 2007 [ 634 02] LICENSE
d--------- 0 0 0 2048 Aug 16 2007 [ 635 02] SOLARIS_10
---------- 0 0 0 19 Jun 12 2007 [ 42462 00] _VOLUME.INF
---------- 0 0 0 21 Aug 16 2007 [ 42463 00] _VOLUME_INF.2
---------- 0 0 0 21 Aug 16 2007 [ 42464 00] _VOLUME_INF.3
---------- 0 0 0 21 Aug 16 2007 [ 42465 00] _VOLUME_INF.4
---------- 0 0 0 21 Aug 16 2007 [ 42466 00] _VOLUME_INF.5
With this information in hand, I added useful labels to the mystery images. Nice!