[NCLUG] Trying to mount and ISO image

Daniel Miles dmiles at holly.colostate.edu
Wed Jan 30 00:04:32 MST 2002


Oh, I'm really sure that's not the problem. If it was the sys would have complained about it... I had that problem once

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:34:23 -0700 (MST)
Kennan Blehm <kmblehm at sigkill.com> wrote:

> Do you have loopback device support compiled into the kernel?
> 
> 
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, bmc wrote:
> 
> > The problem I am running into is this. Using RedHat 7.2 , mounting the image
> > in /mnt/iso the name of the ISO is testiso. So the command I am using  (from
> > /home/brett) is mount testiso.iso /mnt/iso -o loop but this tell me that I
> > need to specify a filesystem. So (and I'm guessing here) I thought that I
> > should use iso9660 to specify the Filesystem. This told me that I had a bad
> > superblock or too many filsesystems mounted blah blah blah.
> > I have also tried mount -o loop testiso.iso /mnt/iso with no luck.
> > My question here is what am I doing wrong? Is there a filesystem I should
> > use other than iso9660 ? Do I need to specify a filesystem or am I just
> > using the command improperly? I have tried several other combinations as
> > well such as  mnt -s....  mnt -t.... using the auto as a filesystem. The
> > only one that actually worked ( somewhat) was the proc filesystem but I knew
> > I didn't wanna leave it that way. Can anybody help ?
> > 
> > 
> > Brett
> > PS in case you wondered yes I am logged in as root.
> > 
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