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On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 06:04:53PM -0400, derosa wrote: |
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> Although I have managed to build a kernel that boots and recognizes the Dell |
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> raid controller, I can't get the system to mount the usr.iso file. I am |
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> going to try to build a kernel based on the boot image config, instead of |
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> the 2.4.7 non modularized one I have been using. |
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> What would the command be to mount this file under /usr ?? |
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> I have tried "mount -o loop /mnt/cdrom/usr.iso /usr" |
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> And it tells me it doesn't know what file system is on usr.iso. |
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> I have also tried the above command with -t dos, minix, reiserfs, ext2, |
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> vfat, iso9660 and that doesn't work either. |
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> Is this file an iso image ? when viewing the file, the top of it looks like |
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> a shell script. |
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You'll need to compile the cloop.o module for this new kernel: |
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http://www.knopper.net/download/knoppix/ |
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cloop is a gzip-compressed loopback filesystem that we use to shave 60Mb off |
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the boot cd. |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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