[TriLUG] making a custom RH7.2 network install disk

[Jeremy P]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Peter Long wrote:

> Here is the output on console 3:
> 
> * copied 6938624 bytes to /tmp/ramfs/netstg1.img
> * loopfd is 14
> * failed to mount loop: No such device
> 
> I assume this error occured when it tried mounting netstg1.img on
> /dev/loop0
> 
> What am I missing here? Did I accidently leave something critical out of
> the kernel? Did I delete to many modules from modules.cgz? 

It looks like you left out the "loopback" device driver, which allows the
installer to mount an image file (netstg1.img in that case) as a
filesystem.  That module is loop.o -- try adding that back to the image
and see if that fixes it.

If you have no SCSI devices, it should be safe to delete all the
SCSI-related stuff (scsi_mod.o, sg.o, sr_mod.o, etc.)

--Jeremy