[rescue] New SPARCStation 10 owner, needs help with some issues though.

[Jerry Kemp]

I can't help with the linux issues, but I'm having a couple of problems myself 
getting this properly mounted.

I first did this, which generated this error

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# lofiadm -a Patches_4_0_16_D1.iso
lofiadm: size of Patches_4_0_16_D1.iso is not a multiple of 512
#
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Then this got me just a bit further along.

# dd if=Patches_4_0_16_D1.iso of=Patches_4_0_16_D1-512.iso obs=512 conv=sync

# lofiadm
Block Device             File                          	Options
/dev/lofi/1              Patches_4_0_16_D1-512.iso	-
#

So I'm now able to address it now as a block device.

Still unable to successfully mount.
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# mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /mnt
hsfs mount: /dev/lofi/1 is not an hsfs file system.
#
# fstyp -a /dev/lofi/1
unknown_fstyp (no matches)
#
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I'm doing this in between other fun while waiting for events to transpire during 
my change window at $WORK, so I probably need to play with this a little bit later.


Jerry






On 02/ 7/16 02:23 AM, Romain Dolbeau wrote:

> Thank you.
>
> Dumb question: short of burning a CD, any way to use the ISOs? Linux
> doesn't identify any partition and so won't loop-mount, and I don't know
> that's it's possible under 4.1.4 or Sol7. 'fdisk' under Sol7 wants a raw
> device so won't even tell me where the partitions are to help Linux. And
> SunOS doesn't like it if I give the image as a Qemu disk.
>
> Cordially,