the hd.img image creaes a floppy that asks for the partition and directory
that holds either the iso or files you wish to install from, no need to do
any actual mounting yourself, the install does that, the only problem i have
had with that todate is that i can only install packages that are
Hello All,
Thanks for the info on this.
I am currently running Mandrake 8.0 and have just found that it does not have a
loop device. I guess that this means that I must re-compile the kernel as well.
Is there any other way of getting the files out of the ISO. Perhaps to copy them
to a
On Wednesday 21 November 2001 19:20, you wrote:
Hello All,
Is there a way to mount an ISO image as a ram drive so that I do not have
to keep burning CD's on images that do not work cleanly?
Thanks in advance,
Lonnie
mount -o loop /path/to/image.iso /mount/point
Want to buy your Pack or
Have you tried insmod loop?
-JMS
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On Thursday 22 November 2001 02:20, you wrote:
Is there a way to mount an ISO image as a ram drive so that I do not have
to keep burning CD's on images that do not work cleanly?
I don't think you can do it as a ram drive, but you can mount the image
directly to a dir:
mount -o loop -t
I don't think you can do it as a ram drive, but you can mount the image
directly to a dir:
mount -o loop -t iso9660 -r /path/to/file.iso /path/to/mountdir
Theoretically, you could, just loopback mount it on a mount point that
is mounted on a RAM disk. But you'd need a CD's worth of RAM to
So sprach »David E. Fox« am 2001-11-21 um 23:00:56 -0800 :
But as a corrolary, have people tried installing from an ISO image
via loopback mount? That would make it kinda cool since not everyone
That's supposed to work, although I've tried it myself.
Alexander Skwar
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