[Rule-list] installer request

[hairylarry at deltaboogie.com]

Devon,

I have been experimenting with hard drive installs of rule. I would like 
a loop0 device, /dev/loop0, available at redhat CD mount time. 

Also the program losetup in /sbin. It is an rpm and is in the standard 
redhat install. The loop devices allow you to mount an image file like 
it was a block device.

This is what I did.

On my windows box I formatted an 800 meg hard drive and then I 
copied the iso from disk 1 to it using cd2file, a freeware from 
goldenhawk.com.

On my full install 7.2 version computer I attached this drive as the 
slave to the boot disk. I mounted the hard drive as msdos. This gave 
me access to the image. I mounted the image to /mnt/cdrom as a 
loop device. This used the loop0 device and the losetup program. 

If I can get to this point with miniconda I can install rule from the hard 
drive. I'm still working on it.

Thanks,

Hairy Larry


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