[lug] Using .ISO images without burning them

[rm at fabula.de]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 07:49:37AM -0700, Sexton, George wrote:
> mkdir mntpoint
> mount image.iso mntpoint -t iso9660 -o loop,ro
> 
> This does require the loopback device to be compiled in your kernel, but
> most distributions probably do this.

Not to be too picky, but you don't have to recompile your kernel
if it doesn't have loopback device support. Loopback support works
perfectly fine as a loadable kernel module. So, in case your kernel
alone doesn't support it allready, you need only to build  the module.
But first try 'modprobe -k loop' - the module might be there allready.


 Ralf