[PLUG] Loopback Question (was: Reading CD)

[Chris Jantzen]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 10:50:00PM -0700, Ron Braithwaite wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 21:53, Steve Bonds wrote:
> > Try using "readcd" to read the entire CD to an ISO file, then mount the
> > ISO via loopback and see if the files are now readable.  Sometimes it's
> > easier to read the whole CD at once than to read a file at a time,
> > particularly if the CD drive is marginal or if the CD were initially
> > mastered oddly.
> 
> OK. I've installed mountloop, but there is *no* documentation. The only
> thing I get is:

FWIW-You don't need mountloop unless you're doing crypto
loopbacks. All the tools you need you have already (well, assuming
your kernel is built right):

mount -o loop /home/foo/bar.iso /mnt/tmp
cd /mnt/tmp
ls

-- 
chris kb7rnl =->
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