On Saturday 14 August 2004 10:31 pm, Chris Walker wrote:

I beginning to think it won't be finished before it's time for my beauty sleep. It's been saying 7:00 for some time now. I began to suspect that it had the same sort of problems that Windows does when it's moving/copying files but I can see by clicking 'details' that it is actually doing something. Also from the fact network traffic on this machine has slowed to a crawl. Hmm. Latest check now says 7:33!

For future reference (and in case you ever need to access the installation RPMS and have lost internet access) this is how to do a loopback mount

Create a mount point somewhere by creating an empty folder there. Personally with loopbacks I like to do it in my home directory, but it depends on what you are doing with it.

For this example mkdir /home/wayne/mandrake mount -r -o loop whatever.iso /home/wayne/mandrake

Now if you browse over to the mandrake folder you will see the contents of the iso

If you require write access to the iso then simply omit the -r Don't forget to umount it when you are finished.