creating a loopback device

Eric Potter ecp62 at charter.net
Tue Nov 16 01:02:46 UTC 2004


Ben Edwards wrote:
> I am using mindi (part of mondo rescue) and it requires /dev/loopback.
> I have looked on the internet but cant find a easy way to create a
> loopback device - or do I have to recompile the kernel?
> 
> Ben
> 

modprobe loop

To make it work every time you boot, add the word loop
to /etc/modules




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