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- Hi,
-
- I noticed the arrival of losetup and downloaded it right away (I just
- had to try). I installed it, and tried that little example mentioned in
- the man page (creating a 100K ext2 image and mounting it). It worked
- perfectly. :-)
-
- Then I tried copying a 1.44Mb dos-floppy image to the HD and tried
- loopmounting that. Again it worked perfectly.
-
- The I tried mounting my ADFS disk, and then loopmounted the root-rpc
- disk I had located in $.ARMLinux. This too worked perfectly.
-
- Now I had to try the real test. I loop-mounted my dos-image file located
- in $.PC486.drive_c. It failed. Doh!
-
- The mount phase failed. The losetup /dev/loop0 /mnt/adfs/PC486.drive_c
- did not complain. Mount complains about not being a msdos filesystem or
- a bad superblock (I think it was superblock).
-
- I tried creating other dos-image files, formatting them in various ways,
- but they all failed.
-
- Then I was looking into a way to create a dos-image file on my ext2 disk
- but I could not. mkdosfs complains about not being able to determine the
- geometry of the image file. I understand that, but how do I tell mkdosfs
- that?
-
- I guess that the image-file create by !PCConfig isn't exactly as mount
- -t msdos/vfat wants it. Can I correct that?
-
- Bernhard
-
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