From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GeaGi-0003Xo-Ge for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:45:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9UGgVt3014524; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:42:31 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9UGdk5C006934 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:39:46 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4A7D83450 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:47:03 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id H7mWLjWeFbT5 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:46:59 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7960E8343C for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:46:59 +0200 (SAST) Received: from jimmynote.sybase.co.za ([192.168.2.87]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:41:37 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Creating loop devices Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:41:14 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200610301454.48014.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <200610301557.08451.harmgeerts@home.nl> <200610302249.37537.noven@sincorp.org> In-Reply-To: <200610302249.37537.noven@sincorp.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610301841.14923.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Oct 2006 16:41:37.0593 (UTC) FILETIME=[449EB290:01C6FC42] X-Archives-Salt: 400db10d-42d1-4c38-af64-eb91b1b2f9d3 X-Archives-Hash: a2da10f6bc09cdb9936f623d7813ae64 On Monday 30 October 2006 17:49, Novensiles divi Flamen wrote: > On Monday 30 October 2006 21:57, Harm Geerts wrote: > > Do you have support for loop devices in your kernel? > > udev has default rules for this in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules > > > > Symbol: BLK_DEV_LOOP [=y] > > Prompt: Loopback device support > > Defined at drivers/block/Kconfig:261 > > Location: > > -> Device Drivers > > -> Block devices Thanks for the reply, you were on the right track as I mentioned in my other mail on this thread alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list