Trimmed all past discussion just to save space.<br><br>PROGRESS:<br>- The comma should NOT be there as it is not part of the type, it is an option allowing a user to do the mount.<br>- The reason the first two and the last two fail is for some reason the file is not found even though it is really there.  I suspect something like wierd syntactical thing or a buffer overflow, or ...   I will have to look at this more.<br>
- When I dumped the comma and did a sudo mount -a, I got<br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">larry@fogtest:~$ sudo mount -a</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">mount: special device /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/10.04/ubuntu-10.04.02-desktop-i386.iso does not exist</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">mount: special device /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/10.04/ubuntu-10.04.01-desktop-amd64.iso does not exist</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">mount: /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/10.10/ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso is not a block device (maybe try `-o loop&#39;?)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">mount: /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/10.10/ubuntu-10.10-desktop-amd64.iso is not a block device (maybe try `-o loop&#39;?)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">mount: special device /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/11.04/ubuntu-11.11-desktop-i386.iso does not exist</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">mount: special device /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/11.04/ubuntu-11.11-desktop-amd64.iso does not exist</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
</blockquote><br>so I tried the following an got back where I started so I think I can put the loop back now and work at figuring out why it can find the legitimate files.<br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">larry@fogtest:~$ sudo mount -a -o loop</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">/home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/10.04/ubuntu-10.04.02-desktop-i386.iso: No such file or directory</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">/home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/10.04/ubuntu-10.04.01-desktop-amd64.iso: No such file or directory</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">/home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/11.04/ubuntu-11.11-desktop-i386.iso: No such file or directory</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">/home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/11.04/ubuntu-11.11-desktop-amd64.iso: No such file or directory</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">larry@fogtest:~$ mount</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">rpc_pipefs on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/larry/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=larry)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">/dev/loop0 on /tftpboot/howtogeek/linux/ubu1010DL32 type iso9660 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">/dev/loop1 on /tftpboot/howtogeek/linux/ubu1010DL64 type iso9660 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
</blockquote><br><br>-- <br>Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry<br><br>The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.<br>  - Thomas Jefferson<br>