On Tuesday 08 October 2002 08:47 pm, Lorne wrote: > Is this an oversite or has someone made an executive decision to > remove the ability to do a mount -l loop from the kernel? I'll > admit I've had an occasion to need it until yesterday, but guess > what? 9.0 on my box does NOT have /dev/loop? of any sort. If I > understand correctly, this means I have to recompile the kernel. It > is about as fast to install Redhat on a box as it is to recompile > the kernel. It isn't that big of a deal, but if older versions have > it, why doesn't 9.0? Anybody know?
naw, it's possible cuz my 9.0 will do it. [root@tuxmachine]:s$ mount /mnt/hd/Mandrake82-cd2-ext.i586.iso -o loop /mnt/loop [root@tuxmachine]:s$ cd /mnt/loop [root@tuxmachine]:loop$ ls isolinux/ Mandrake/ [root@tuxmachine]:loop$ ls /dev/loop* -hal lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Oct 8 21:18 /dev/loop0 -> loop/0 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Oct 8 21:18 /dev/loop1 -> loop/1 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Oct 8 21:18 /dev/loop2 -> loop/2 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Oct 8 21:18 /dev/loop3 -> loop/3 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Oct 8 21:18 /dev/loop4 -> loop/4 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Oct 8 21:18 /dev/loop5 -> loop/5 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Oct 8 21:18 /dev/loop6 -> loop/6 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Oct 8 21:18 /dev/loop7 -> loop/7 not much help, but at least you know it's not the kernel as I'm running stock mdk kernel. :) -s
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