Re: Errors on loop mounted DVD-image
On Thursday 21 October 2004 18:07, G. Klein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have sucessfully downloaded the DVD iso images for
> sarge-i386 with jigdo. The image was o.k. according to
> the jigdo status. When loop mounting the image I get
> Input/Output errors reading some of the deb packages.
> I get the impression, that all packages beyond the 2GB
> of the image cannot be read, but I am not sure about that.
> Is there an issue with loop mounting >2GB images ?
> Can anyone point into the direction where to check.
I'm running 2.4.18-k7 kernel on a Woody desktop system.
Just loop mounted dvd iso, sarge-i386-1.iso and checked
md5sum -c md5sum.txt
which ran through 100% ok - it took a while.
So I don't think its a > 2gig issue at all.
>
> I am using kernel 2.4.21 on a notebook with sarge.
>
> Previous to using the DVD.iso I was using CD images,
> but here I can only loop-mount 8 images at a time.
> I have not found a way to increase the loop devices
> to more than 8 in order to mount all 12 CD.isos at the
> same time. Any suggestions ?!
I just googled 'more than 8 loop devices' and got 796,000
references. Most of the first 10 look to be relevant.
HTH
Bob Parker
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