dumb question about mounting iso file as loop device....

2006-12-18 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debian folks, In the jigdo how to manual it says that you can update an image with jigdo either by scanning in the image from a CD or DVD OR if you have an ISO file on your hard drive you can mount it as a loop device: Here is some material from the how to on this: On the other

Re: dumb question about mounting iso file as loop device....

2006-12-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 12:43:11AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: if you have an ISO file on your hard drive you can mount it as a loop device: mount -t iso9660 -o loop /path/to/file.iso /mnt/somewhere Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto

Re: dumb question about mounting iso file as loop device....

2006-12-18 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 12:43:11AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: # mount -o loop woody-i386-1.iso /mnt What does this mean? Do you have to move the iso file to the /mnt directory and then run this mount command? No. It mounts the iso image into /mnt (as if it were a real CD, for

Re: dumb question about mounting iso file as loop device....

2006-12-18 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Michael Fothergill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [061218 22:00]: In the jigdo how to manual it says that you can update an image with jigdo either by scanning in the image from a CD or DVD OR if you have an ISO file on your hard drive you can mount it as a loop device: Here is some material