driverdisk --source= option

Kostas Georgiou k.georgiou at imperial.ac.uk
Fri Nov 19 10:58:05 UTC 2004


On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:21:39AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:

> 
>  Thanks for the responses. I'll certainly give it a try by making it an
> ext2 fs.
> 
>  Could it be possible that the loop module isn't included with the
> bootdisk.img? Just starting to dig into this a bit more.
> 
>  I'm fairly sure the image is being transferred correctly. I'm able to ftp
> it from one box and mount via    mount -o loop dd.img /mnt/loop

For a local driver disk getDDFromDev() is called
which tries vfat,ext2,iso9660

Without a device you get getDDFromSource() -> mountLoopback()
and mountLoopback only tries iso9660,ext2,cramfs.

Cheers,
Kostas
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