I'm not sure if this is the right forum to ask this ....

I have a dvd image (.iso) on one of my smb shares that I want to mount on the roku. I want to be able to access some/all the files on the image. I've tried:

> mount -o loop -t iso9660 /mnt/smb/computerName/file.iso /mnt

error response:

mount: Could not find a spare loop device

Googling around it seems that this requires /dev/loop/0... which roku does have 0..7 actually. I used losetup on these and they all are undefined.

Anyone have any luck doing this?

Thanks

That'd be cool to be able to do, but in the few months I've been on these forum's I've never seen anyway state a way to successfully "mount" an image file and get at the content directly. All the solutions have been to extract the desired content out of the image into a sub-directory the PB can see.

Using NeroDriveImage or something similar you can mount an image file as a drive on a Windows machine and share that drive.

The loopback device has to be built into the linux kernel for it to work on the PB.

From the MountSDK.roku script, I'd say you need to use losetup first, then mount the loop device:

losetup /dev/loop/0 /mnt/flash1/rokudev.cramfs
mount /dev/loop/0 /usr/share/rokudev -o ro

In your case:

losetup /dev/loop/0 /mnt/smb/computerName/shareName/file.iso
mount /dev/loop/0 /mnt -o ro -t iso9660

I haven't tried this, but it matches how Roku mounts their rokudev.cramfs SDK image.

-Simon