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From: Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] *.bin and /dev/loop help
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:48:56
Message-Id: 43CD3A52.2030906@planet.nl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] *.bin and /dev/loop help by krgn
1 krgn schreef:
2 >> Symbol: BLK_DEV_LOOP [=y]
3 >> Prompt: Loopback device support
4 >> Defined at drivers/block/Kconfig:261
5 >> Location:
6 >> -> Device Drivers
7 >> -> Block devices
8 >>
9 >> mount -o loop
10 >
11 > ok, installed it as module and its there...
12 >
13 <snip>
14 >
15 > but if I try to mount the iso image.. it outputs this ->
16 >
17 > RockHead doom # mount -t iso9660 Doom3cd1.iso01.iso /mnt/iso/cd1/ -o
18 > loop=/dev/loop0
19 > ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Device or resource busy
20 >
21 > so I wonder what this means.
22 >
23 >
24 > Karsten
25 >
26 Wrong mount format. Try
27
28 mount -o loop Doom3cd1.iso01.iso /mnt/<some_folder_in_mnt>
29
30 (I think, working from memory)
31
32 HTH,
33 Holly
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