on Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 12:39:32AM -0700, Cameron Matheson (cmatheson3@yahoo.com) wrote:
> Hey,
>
> It's a loopback filesystem. Read the loopback HOWTO.
No such beast. Looback is a device that allows mounting of filesystem
image files as filesystems. The file itself must contain a valid
filesystem.
There are a number of other filesystems, including romfs, which IIRC is
designed to be a small, readonly, in-memory filesystem, which might be a
logical choice for the task.
For the Potato 2.2 disks, however, root.bin found under /install is a
gziped ext2 filesystem image. This can be determined by running 'type'
against the file (it reports gzip), then uncompressing the file (most
likely to a location other than the CDROM), and running 'type' against
it again. I've currently got this image mounted on my own system:
/tmp/root.bin on /tmp/mnt type ext2 (ro,loop=/dev/loop0)
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 05:30:40AM +0000, Yuwen Dai wrote:
> > Hi, Dear All
> >
> > I want to create rescue diskette from the Debian official CD-rom. I
> > found that rescue.bin is msdos system, however, I could not figure
> > out the file system of root.bin. I tried ext2, minix, msdos, fat.
> > All wrong. Any idea?
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