On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 10:44:47AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Saturday 07 February 2009 10:31:17 Thomas H. George wrote: > > I have carefullly followed the instructions in man mount and in the > > Debian Reference manual, for example > > > > mount -o loop -t ext3 debxo-awesome.ext3.img /media/sdloop > > > > or > > > > mount dexo-awesome.ext3.img /media/sdloop -t ext3 -o loop > > Either of those commands are correct. > > > In both cases the mount command exits with a message: > > > > Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev loop0. > > Could mean a few things, but it generally means your image file is either > corrupt or was never ext3 formatted. > > > What must I do to be able to mount this image file? > > Could you run "file debxo-awesome.ext3.img" can provide the output? > -- OK, here it is:
Script started on Sat 07 Feb 2009 02:26:44 PM EST dragon:/data/olpc# file debxo-awesome.ext3.img debxo-awesome.ext3.img: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0x83, active, starthead 1, startsector 32, 3848160 sectors dragon:/data/olpc# exit Script done on Sat 07 Feb 2009 02:27:12 PM EST The image was meant to be transfered to a USB device but the instructions said that if the device was less than 2 Gb it could be loop mounted as ext3 in order to copy the guts of the image to a smaller USB device. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
