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Using losetup and such is the more traditional way and is guaranteed to work on older systems that may not support mount -o loop.
Solar wrote:It keeps stunning me how friendly we - as a community - are towards people who start programming "their first OS" who don't even have a solid understanding of pointers, their compiler, or how a OS is structured.