[olpc-software] Re: Yum won't install SDK

[Pádraig Brady]

Teus Benschop wrote:
> Does anybody has an idea why the nightly image cannot be mounted using
> the loopback device?
> 
> This is the output of the terminal:
> 
> [teus at localhost olpc]$ ls -l
> total 493296
> drwxrwxr-x  2 teus teus      4096 Jun 20 11:01 image
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 teus teus        72 Jun 13 09:00 olpc
> -rw-rw-r--  1 teus teus 504627200 Jun 20 16:51
> olpc-stream-development-7-20060609_1600-ext3.img
> [teus at localhost olpc]$ sudo mount -o loop,offset=32256 -t ext3
> olpc-stream-development-7-20060609_1600-ext3.img /home/teus/olpc/image
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop1,
>       missing codepage or other error
>       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>       dmesg | tail  or so

Are you sure the offset is correct?
I've a simple script to automatically mount images like that:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/lomount.sh

Pádraig.