On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 22:32, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: > Hello: > > I am from a developing country, where bandwidth is NOT something > easy to get. For disk space saving reason, I am currently mounting > CD images through /dev/loopX. Thus, the /etc/fstab looks something > like this (where XX is a longer path): > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > /XX/cd-image/Mandrake82-cd1-inst.i586.iso /XX/8.2/disk1 iso9660 ro,loop=/dev/loop0 0 0 > /XX/cd-image/Mandrake82-cd2-ext.i586.iso /XX/8.2/disk2 iso9660 ro,loop=/dev/loop1 0 0 > /XX/cd-image/Mandrake82-cd3-supp.i586.iso /XX/8.2/disk3 iso9660 ro,loop=/dev/loop2 0 0 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Instead of mirroring the bulky DEBIAN pool, I have a plan to do > the same thing for the woody images. Unfortunately, there are only > eight /dev/loop devices. > > Questions: > > - Is there any way to add more loop devices? > - If yes, may I know which kernel parameter to alter? > - Also, may I know how much the limit is? > > thank you. > > -- > Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim -- vLSM.org -- http://rms46.vLSM.org -- > === Debian Does Dallas: http://wmbr.mit.edu/shows/ddd/ ========= > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > >From http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/CDServer-HOWTO/addloops.html "Edit /etc/modules.conf and add the following line. options loop max_loop=64" I haven't tried this yet but I am setting up a system to do the same thing with iso's. -- Greg C. Madden Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
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