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Re: Using loop devices in Debian



On Vi, 24 ian 14, 08:06:15, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> >On Vi, 24 ian 14, 11:50:25, David wrote:
> >>
> >>So where you have several dvd iso files, then ordinarily you would
> >>need several separate loop mounts. Unless you create a filesystem in
> >>one huge file, copy all the iso's into it, and then loop mount that
> >>huge file. That sounds like a very ugly idea to me, but I suppose it's
> >>possible if preseed requires it for some reason. It would be smarter
> >>to create one custom image file based on DVD #1 plus any extra you
> >>need and mount just that. Try it first with just an image of DVD#1
> >>before anything more complex.
> >
> >There are also Blu-ray images. If my understanding is correct the OP
> >already has the full DVD set so using jigdo to create the BD image using
> >the DVDs should be simple and require only minimal network access.
> 
> I do have the full set.
> But I don't understand what using jigdo would accomplish.

I was merely following up to the "combining everything in one file" 
approach suggested above. You would use jigdo to create a BD image from 
the DVD images.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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