Mounting ISO Files?

[John Stilian]

On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 17:10 -0400, David M. Carney wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:06:09 -0400, David M. Carney
> <carney1979 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just tried to mount an ISO image with sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660
> > GNUSTEP-i386-0.5.iso /media/ISO.
> > 
> > I get the following error:
> > 
> > mount: could not find any device /dev/loop#
> > 
> > So, how does one mount ISO's with Ubuntu?
> > 
> > David
> > 
> > --
> > Registered Linux User #297958
> > 
> 
> ...and if I had bothered to search the list before posting my
> question, I would have found my answer.
> 
> As root, modprobe loop.
> 
> I'll be sure to add it to /etc/modules
> 
> David
> 

Personally, I think should mount should insert the loop module itself,
like it does for the various filesystem modules. Of course, this was
never a problem before UDEV, but it does seem like the correct behavior.