adding new packages
Mike Burger
mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Fri Nov 7 18:24:49 UTC 2003
Albert DE WINT wrote:
>>Oops. "mount -o loop,ro /path-to-iso/yarrow-i386-disc1.iso /mnt/cdrom"
>>will work much better ;-)
>
>
> No problem David; I saw the mistake? Now what worries me is:
> I can mount my Mandrake's root partition (hda6) and browse it.
> So I can see the 3 'Yarrow' ISO's, all right.
>
> But, when I enter the mount command like you suggest:
>
> mount -o loop,ro /dev/hda6/yarrow/yarrow-i386-disc1.iso /mnt/disc1
>
> It doesn't agree, I get:
>
> /dev/hda6/yarrow/yarrow-i386-disc1.iso: Not a directory
>
> Weird...
Not weird, at all. You can't mount a file from a device. You need to
actually specify the path, as it is actually mounted. If /dev/hda6 is
actually mounted at /usr/local/discs, then you want to mount
/usr/local/discs/yarrow/yarrow-i386-disc1.iso.
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