allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
> More accurately: > > During Install, Expert Mode, everything freshly formatted except for "/home", > at the end, check for updates... > > Mdk9beta3 evidently tries to mount something AT /mnt/root/aif-mount > using a loopback device. It evidently tries all available loopback devices. > > When in fact there is no mount point, /mnt/root/aif-mount. there is! During install "/" is mounted as "/mnt". > > This is why I would suggest that the error below is not a loopback > device problem but actually a mount point problem. > > The invalid argument would be "/mnt/root/aif-mount". nope, when the directory where to mount doesn't exist, one gets: No such file or directory one would get an "Invalid argument" if the loopack was not properly losetup'ed and losetup *did not* fail :-( anyway, a solution is to check the mounting for errors.
