Heh, I figured you had gone to bed long ago so I did not update this earlier.  I found those typos and fixed em.  So thats MY brain fart.  Its hard to believe how many times I looked at those lines and the directory listings and did not see the difference.

The other problem I had was that in the menus for vesamenu.c32, SOME of the paths are apparently relative to the location of the config file.  That meant that part of what I wanted to do would not work and the reference for nfs was absolute.

Anyway, it is all working now.  The major remaining problem is the limitation on the number of loop devices.  Thats going to be something for tomorrow.

THANKS for all your help and I am sorry for my dumber mistakes.

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com> wrote:
I just tried doing this on my machine.  I gave it 10 ISOs and they all mounted fine until I ram out of loop devices, so only 8 mounts.

I just went to look at the name of the ubuntu ISO for 10.04 and I think you might have a typo unless you changed the names of the ones on your system.  the name I have is:ubuntu-10.04.2-desktop-i386.iso
The one in your fstab has an extra zero after the 10.04.  I'm guessing the same typo happenes with the 10.04.1 version as well.

I hope that's it because I can't reproduce your problem :(

Sorry again for the brain fart I had with the file system/options thing.

Brian Cluff


On 05/02/2011 11:05 PM, Dazed_75 wrote:
Trimmed all past discussion just to save space.

PROGRESS:
- 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.
- 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.
- When I dumped the comma and did a sudo mount -a, I got

   larry@fogtest:~$ sudo mount -a
   mount: special device
   /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/10.04/ubuntu-10.04.02-desktop-i386.iso
   does not exist
   mount: special device
   /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/10.04/ubuntu-10.04.01-desktop-amd64.iso
   does not exist
   mount:
   /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/10.10/ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso is
   not a block device (maybe try `-o loop'?)
   mount:
   /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/10.10/ubuntu-10.10-desktop-amd64.iso is
   not a block device (maybe try `-o loop'?)
   mount: special device
   /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/11.04/ubuntu-11.11-desktop-i386.iso does
   not exist
   mount: special device
   /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/11.04/ubuntu-11.11-desktop-amd64.iso
   does not exist


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.

   larry@fogtest:~$ sudo mount -a -o loop
   /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/10.04/ubuntu-10.04.02-desktop-i386.iso:
   No such file or directory
   /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/10.04/ubuntu-10.04.01-desktop-amd64.iso:
   No such file or directory
   /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/11.04/ubuntu-11.11-desktop-i386.iso: No
   such file or directory
   /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/11.04/ubuntu-11.11-desktop-amd64.iso: No
   such file or directory
   larry@fogtest:~$ mount
   /dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
   proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
   none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
   none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
   none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
   none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
   none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
   none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
   none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
   none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
   none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
   none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
   rpc_pipefs on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
   nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)
   binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc
   (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
   gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/larry/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon
   (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=larry)
   /dev/loop0 on /tftpboot/howtogeek/linux/ubu1010DL32 type iso9660
   (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
   /dev/loop1 on /tftpboot/howtogeek/linux/ubu1010DL64 type iso9660
   (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)



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occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
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