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Am Mittwoch, 1. März 2006 17:27 schrieb Nick Smith: |
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> wouldnt that be the same as just telling vmware in the software itself |
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> to use the that iso image? i cant use vmware's virtual cdrom for this |
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> project, it gives me errors on boot, i need to find a way to have it |
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> mounted some other way like daemontools for windows. i have tried |
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> just mounting the iso as a cdrom in folder /media/cdrom and other |
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> places, but vmware complains that you cant use a folder like that. so |
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> im kinda out of ideas. can it even be done? |
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Yes. Basically that's what mount -o loop does internally before mounting it to |
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a filesystem; you just have to set up the loop device separately. |
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For info on that, do a man losetup, basically what you need is: |
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losetup /dev/loop0 myimage.iso |
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and tell VMWare to use that loop device as a CD-ROM block device. |
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YMMV though, as a true CD-ROM block device supports IOCTLs which the loop |
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device can't/doesn't. |
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--- Heiko. |
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