On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 10:03:37AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > It's _loop_ mounting of _each_ ISO I wish to avoid. Again, glad to be proven wrong. But /if/ the iso file system image is lying around as a file in a mounted file system, I don't see a way around a loop device to actually mount it. Different, of course from the case where it's on a medium (stick, partition, you name it) which already appears as a device. > What I had seen had the general for in fstab of > > /dev/hdb5 /mydvds ISO9660 defaults 1 1 > > and each iso of a dvd had its own line in sources.list *IIRC* This would work for a "real" CDROM, for a dedicated disk partition, for an USB stick (or a partition therein). For an image file, the missing link, AFAIK, is a loopback device, which you seem to dislike (I don't know yet why). Cheers - t
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