mount problems

[Server]

hello everybody,

I have this problem,

When I tried to mount the miniroot.gz, i am always have this error:

ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Invalid argument.

I unzip the file firt, and then I tried to mount it.

here is what i did:

gunzip filename.gz

mount -o loop filename /mount_directory

any ideas?

[iwanabeguru]

check the type of the unpacked file
code:
file unpacked_file_name

you only can mount iso files with loop

[jpalfree]

I'm pretty sure you can mount more than just iso9660 with loop...
I am able to mount initrds with loop and they were formatted as ext2/ext3.

you could try specifying the filesystem type with -t
as iwanabeguru said, you can use

file filename

to check the type of the file.

[Server]

Thank you for reply.

I finally mount the file, and I know i just can mount with -o loop the iso images, but the file, in this case is the miniroot.gz, I unziped, and then mount the file without the gz extension.

To be able to do this, I had to install my kernel-headers and my kernel-sources.

thank you