On 3/1/06, Heiko Wundram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 1. März 2006 17:27 schrieb Nick Smith: > > wouldnt that be the same as just telling vmware in the software itself > > to use the that iso image? i cant use vmware's virtual cdrom for this > > project, it gives me errors on boot, i need to find a way to have it > > mounted some other way like daemontools for windows. i have tried > > just mounting the iso as a cdrom in folder /media/cdrom and other > > places, but vmware complains that you cant use a folder like that. so > > im kinda out of ideas. can it even be done? > > Yes. Basically that's what mount -o loop does internally before mounting it to > a filesystem; you just have to set up the loop device separately. > > For info on that, do a man losetup, basically what you need is: > > losetup /dev/loop0 myimage.iso > > and tell VMWare to use that loop device as a CD-ROM block device. > > YMMV though, as a true CD-ROM block device supports IOCTLs which the loop > device can't/doesn't. > > -- > --- Heiko. > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > vmware tells me that /dev/loop1 exsists but does not appear to be a cdrom device, is there something else i have to do?
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