X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <49B69649.5050407@dazjorz.com> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:33:13 +0100 From: Sjors Gielen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Unable to mount .iso file References: <80152cdc0903100911s668ecb0bj8a74706e02db7ebc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <80152cdc0903100911s668ecb0bj8a74706e02db7ebc@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Keith Christian wrote: > I've tried the following mount command and it fails: > > mount -t iso9660 -o,loop ./RHEL4-U5-x86_64-WS-disc1.iso /media > mount: invalid option - '' It's because of the mount syntax. Comma is the seperator for seperate options, use a space to seperate the '-o' and the 'loop' (ie, this way it will see an empty option between -o and loop, resulting in invalid option ''). Try this: mount -t ios9660 -o loop ./RHEL[...].iso /media -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/