Mount has been updated to support a 'loop' option so I typically do

mount -o loop,ro file dir

It's less typing than dealing with losetup

Josh

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On Wed, 23 May 2001, Andy Zbikowski (Zibby) wrote:

> On Wed, 23 May 2001, Florin Iucha wrote:
>
> > Whatever happens don't panic and don't reboot :)
> Make that <font size="+2" color="red"><strong>DON'T PANIC</strong></font>
>
> Yeah I know, not HTML4, but it'll do. :)
>
> Last time I tried directly mounting an iso it didn't work. After
> consulting the documentation, I found what was the correct proccess. This
> was some time ago, but the kernel documentation still says you need to
> follow this procedure.
>
> So, my question is is the kernel documentation (2.4.4) out of date or has
> mount been updated to handle the losetup step for you? I imagine issuing
> mount while the image was mounted using Brian's method would reveal the
> answer. ;)
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