Can't mount rootfs files

[teitoku]

I'm trying to do a full native install. I've formatted my 10GB drive and sent over the rootfs file.

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Resctoox:> ls -l /mnt
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Aug  3  2003 e
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root           72 Oct 18 22:11 hda2
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Oct 18 22:33 loopback
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Aug  3  2003 swap
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Aug  3  2003 temp

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Resctoox:> df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs                   24785     22359      1146  96% /
/dev/root                24785     22359      1146  96% /
/dev/hda2              9269728   4132912   5136816  45% /mnt/hda2

Looks good so far, but wait...there's more!

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Resctoox:> mount -o loop /mnt/hda2/rootfs /mnt/loopback
mount: Mounting /mnt/hda2/rootfs on /mnt/loopback failed: Not a directory

Now that's just baloney. How do I mount rootfs to copy the files from it?

[teitoku]

Oh, and mount /mnt/hda2/rootfs /mnt/loopback -o loop=/dev/loop/0 fails with "Block device required"

[cheesyboofs]

Sounds to me like your rootfs file is incomplete or corrupt in some way…

[teitoku]

I'll run md5sum on it and see...

[orochi]

your rootfs should be about 4gigs, run

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ls -la

in the directory rootfs resides

[ShALLaX]

Sounds to me like you didnt mkdir /mnt/loopback.

[teitoku]

Of course I did. Look at the original post.

[ShALLaX]

Oops my browser formatted the text weirdly, my bad.