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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm trying to install SGI's Virtual Workstation
Edition 3.1 on my Red Hat 7.1 system, hoping that maybe this way I can get my
SGI VR3 Quadro to work properly. (I've already tried the nVidia drivers
with no luck) I've downloaded all of the files, and followed all of their
instructions and everything has worked so far, but now I have a .iso file but no
burner in my machine, so I can't put it on CD. It says I can mount the ISO
with a loopback device. Here are the instructions from the SGI
site:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><B>Option #2 (requires nearly 1 GB of disk
space):</B> </DIV>
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<LI>Mount the ISO image as a loopback device with the following command:
<BR><BR><CODE># mount -o loop VWE3.1.iso <I>/mnt/VWE</I> </CODE><BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE><B>Note: </B><CODE><I>/mnt/VWE </I></CODE>in the above command
is the mount point and can be replaced with any directory of your choice.
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<LI>Change to whatever directory you used as your mount point, and then run
the <I>INSTALL</I> script. </LI></OL>
<DIV>but when I try this, I get the following message:</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>Could not find any loop device, and, according to
/proc/devices,</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>this kernel does not know about the loop device.</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>(If so, then recompile or 'insmod loop.o')</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>I'm running 2.4.17, but I don't know where in make xconfig to find anything
about loop devices. Would anyone be able to tell me how to go about taking
care of this? Thanks for any help</DIV>
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<DIV>Jeff Schmidt</DIV>
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