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Extract files from FreeBSD ISOs - how to know locations?

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http://unix.stackexchange.com – How can I extract some of the folders of a stock FreeBSD install from the ISO without actually installing FreeBSD? I am trying to build a number of cross-compilers for various major versions of FreeBSD and need to get the libc and some includes and would like to be able to extract /usr/include and /usr/lib or rather parts of them ... Edit: given the first response I feel I have to elaborate a bit. It is trivial to mount an ISO file and I know how to do that on a number of platforms (e.g. on my Linux box: mount -o loop FreeBSD-7.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso freebsd7/). However, when you mount th (HowTos)

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