[olug] mounting a loop device

drose.SCANTRON at scantron.com drose.SCANTRON at scantron.com
Fri Feb 28 15:04:43 UTC 2003


Thank you,  That worked.


Daryl Rose
Unix Support Specialist
drose at scantron.com
1-800-228-3628 x3061




                                                                                                                                       
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usually initial ram disks are gziped -


cp initrd.img /tmp/tmpimg.gz
gzip -d /tmp/tmpimg.gz
mount -o loop /tmp/tmpimg /mnt/point



On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:20:05PM -0600, drose.SCANTRON at scantron.com
wrote:
> Can an initrd.img be mounted as a loop device?  If so, how would it be
> done?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Daryl Rose
> Unix Support Specialist
> drose at scantron.com
> 1-800-228-3628 x3061
>
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