can't mount files on loopback device

[Gregory Nowak]

Yes, color.gz is on the minix fs since it's on a floppy, and since under zipspeak it gets mounted as such on the loopback device. However, I do have minix support compiled in to this kernel. Anything else I should check?
Greg


On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:04:02PM -0400, Frank Carmickle wrote:
> Greg
> The issue here is that you need to have the filesystem type in your
> kernel.  Either load the apropriate module or build it in to the
> kernel.  If memory serves me correctly the color.gz rootdisk is of type
> minix.  
> 
> HTH 
> Frank
>  On Wed, 16 May 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I took color.gz, put it in /color.gz, ran gunzip on it, and got the larger color file. When I try "mount -o loop /color /mnt", my system freezes. However, when I boot into zipspeak on a zipdisk, and do the same thing with the same file, it mounts, and I can access it under /mnt. I've got the loopback device (I'm not referring to the network one either) compiled in to my kernel. In addition, I compiled in ramdisk support, and initial ramdisk support 
> > (even though I didn't  think I needed that to get this to work). What am I missing? Thanks.
> > Greg
> 
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