[PLUG] Loopback Question (was: Reading CD)

j freyley freyley at gmail.com
Mon Aug 23 23:05:03 UTC 2004


On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:50:00 -0700, Ron Braithwaite <ron at nutriware.com> wrote:

> mountloop ??? /var/iso/cd1.iso /mnt/cd1

You don't need mountloop to mount loopback filesystems.

mount -o loop /var/iso/cd1.iso /mnt/cd1

should work fine unless you are missing modules. You'll want to load
the loop driver with

modprobe loop

If it's an encrypted loop iso you may need other drivers.

Jeff
 
> I assume that <enc> is encoding, but what *kind* of encoding? And can I
> put some variant of this into /etc/fstab so these files are always
> available?
> 
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> 
> -Ron
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