Kind of late, but you don't make it appear as a CD drive, per se. You simply do this: mount -o loop /path/to/filename.iso /path/to/mount/point
You wind up with the same effect, but without any real hardware being used. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George Wallace Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 2:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Basic SP3 install question John, Can you describe how you set up the loopback to appear as a CDROM? I am following a similar path to what you did for SP2 in that I have created a directory with ISO images of the SP updates but I am unclear on how to satisfy YAST request to mount a CDROM when obviously we don't have such a device attached to our 9672. thanks..........GW >John Kapturowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >..... In the past I have installed SP2 using an ISO CD image with the >mount >loopback which worked great. I --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
