[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
Ah. Well then I guess I can kind of see the point. Didn't know that
was mountable - thanks for the info. Learn something new every day! ;)
> 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.
No doubt. I think if I was going to go the download route, I would grab
just the bits I needed. In fact I'll be doing just that fairly soon.
Got a new box to play with but no CDROM. And both IDE channels will be
taken with hard drives.
> 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.
It sounds it. Hhhmmm ... something new to play with. Think I'll have
to try it sometime.
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