Mike,
It's not a stupid question. If you have 650mb free somewhere to hold
the image in a file, and you have loopback support, (kernel or module, I
think) you can mount it with a loopback device using losetup. I still
don't see the point.
If I can't afford a CheapBytes CD, I probably can't affort to ftp 650 mb
either, and at 28.8 it would be obsolete before I got all of it.
Loopback is probably more useful to the folks who make cd images to burn
into cd's, but I've used it to mount floppy images from cd's to see what
was on them, and even the initrd image from a boot floppy image. It's
kind of neat.
Lawson
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On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Mike Werner wrote:
> This might be a stupid question, but just what would I do with a CDROM
> image? Can it be mounted as a file system?
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