From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) Subject: Re: Mounting a file?? Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 14:34:45 GMT
In article <1u446lINN84q@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> tytso@athena.mit.edu writes:
> From: joel@rac2.wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
> Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 21:33:36 GMT
>
> A while back there was some discussion about mounting a file, but I
> couldn't imagine why one would want to do that, so I ignored it. Now
> I do want to mount a file. Basically, what I want to be able to do is
> modify a diskimage file for dosemu without having to boot dosemu.
>
>What you want is the loop device. Werner Almesberger
>(almesber@bernina.ethz.ch) originally wrote some patches to do them, and
>I've since rewritten them and given them to him to maintain.
>Send him mail for more details.
>
>Werner, whenever you're ready, I'll be happy to create a ALPHA/loop
>directory for you on TSX-11....
>
> - Ted
>
>
SLS 1.02 contains the loop mounting patches. Just do:
mount -t msdos image /dir
Works like a hot damn.
Peter