Oops, I read that wrong the first time. You do not want a comma between iso9660 and user. My brain read them all as the option section and the lack of a comma would have been wrong in that case. Brian Cluff On 05/02/2011 10:43 PM, Dazed_75 wrote: > Interesting. Putting the comma in all 6 lines made them all fail one at > a time. The failure message in /var/log/boot.log says > > mount: unknown filesystem type 'loop' > mountall: mount /tftpboot/howtogeek/linux/ubu1004DL32 [745] terminated > with status 32 > > and I find no reference to loop in a man fstab though I do in mount. I > am wondering if the guide I am using may have been written by someone > who manually mounted as a loop device and then wrote the article and > assumed it was a valid type for fstab. I have > never understood loop devices. Is that why you said you did not know > why any of them worked? > > > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Brian Cluff > wrote: > > I can't tell you why any of them work, but there appears to be a > missing comma between iso9660 and user on all the lines. > > As for the nfs stuff, nfs requires you to add either the > "subtree_check" or "no_subtree_check" option to the exports file for > every line these days. > > Brian > > > On 05/02/2011 08:21 PM, Dazed_75 wrote: > > I've added these 6 lines to /etc/fstab on this machine: > > > /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/10.04/ubuntu-10.04.02-desktop-i386.iso /mnt/ubu1004DL32 > udf,iso9660 user,loop 0 0 > > /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/10.04/ubuntu-10.04.02-desktop-amd64.iso > /mnt/ubu1004DL64 udf,iso9660 user,loop 0 0 > /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/10.10/ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso > /mnt/ubu1010DL32 udf,iso9660 user,loop 0 0 > /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/10.10/ubuntu-10.10-desktop-amd64.iso > /mnt/ubu1010DL64 udf,iso9660 user,loop 0 0 > /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/11.04/ubuntu-11.11-desktop-i386.iso > /mnt/ubu1104DL32 udf,iso9660 user,loop 0 0 > /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/11.04/ubuntu-11.11-desktop-amd64.iso > /mnt/ubu1104DL64 udf,iso9660 user,loop 0 0 > > > Problem is that only the middle two seem to work. The first one (or > more) show an error on screen and give 2 options before the gdm > login > but gdm comes up too soon to do anything. After logging in I find > > May 2 19:49:11 fogtest exportfs[1100]: /etc/exports [2]: > Neither > 'subtree_check' or 'no_subtree_check' specified for export > "*:/images/dev".#012 Assuming default behaviour > ('no_subtree_check').#012 NOTE: this default has changed since > nfs-utils version 1.0.x > May 2 19:49:11 fogtest exportfs[1100]: /etc/exports [3]: > Neither > 'subtree_check' or 'no_subtree_check' specified for export > "*:/mnt/ubu1004DL32".#012 Assuming default behaviour > ('no_subtree_check').#012 NOTE: this default has changed since > nfs-utils version 1.0.x > May 2 19:49:11 fogtest exportfs[1100]: /etc/exports [4]: > Neither > 'subtree_check' or 'no_subtree_check' specified for export > "*:/mnt/ubu1004DL64".#012 Assuming default behaviour > ('no_subtree_check').#012 NOTE: this default has changed since > nfs-utils version 1.0.x > May 2 19:49:11 fogtest exportfs[1100]: /etc/exports [5]: > Neither > 'subtree_check' or 'no_subtree_check' specified for export > "*:/mnt/ubu1010DL32".#012 Assuming default behaviour > ('no_subtree_check').#012 NOTE: this default has changed since > nfs-utils version 1.0.x > May 2 19:49:11 fogtest exportfs[1100]: /etc/exports [6]: > Neither > 'subtree_check' or 'no_subtree_check' specified for export > "*:/mnt/ubu1010DL64".#012 Assuming default behaviour > ('no_subtree_check').#012 NOTE: this default has changed since > nfs-utils version 1.0.x > May 2 19:49:11 fogtest exportfs[1100]: /etc/exports [7]: > Neither > 'subtree_check' or 'no_subtree_check' specified for export > "*:/mnt/ubu1104DL32".#012 Assuming default behaviour > ('no_subtree_check').#012 NOTE: this default has changed since > nfs-utils version 1.0.x > May 2 19:49:11 fogtest exportfs[1100]: /etc/exports [8]: > Neither > 'subtree_check' or 'no_subtree_check' specified for export > "*:/mnt/ubu1104DL64".#012 Assuming default behaviour > ('no_subtree_check').#012 NOTE: this default has changed since > nfs-utils version 1.0.x > > > from processing /etc/exports for nfs. I don't think this means > anythoing about why only 2 of the 6 gets mounted. Any ideas? > > -- > Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry > > The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain > occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. > - Thomas Jefferson > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > Dazed_75 a.k.a. 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