On 24/12/14 21:14, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2014-12-24 21:10, Peter wrote:
But it seems either out of date or not relevant to openSUSE since I cannot get 'loop' to show in /proc/filesystems,
modprobe. You may have to load the module.
I'd tried that. Doing 'modprobe vfat' prompted for root and then worked, putting the entry into proc/filesystems, but 'modprobe loop' doesn't produce any output. I wondered if I could skip it since the floppy image seemed to update after I completed the final step of unmounting it, and my next step was to transfer it to bootable CD, as detailed on the page I linked previously. But now I'm on an absurd merry-go-round of half-broken machines from which I cannot even burn the iso image to a disc, because I'm away from home without access to all my usual bits and bobs, Brasero outright refuses to do anything remotely useful - as indeed it has on every machine I've ever had it installed on during ten years, failing on this occasion to blank my CDRW and whinging that I don't even have a disc in the drive, which is an outright lie. Wodim from the command line also falters. I cannot currently transfer the file to another machine to burn it with the more capable and less sulky K3B because my only transfer facility here is Spideroak and that's decided today to throw a wobbly - as it has done many times over the years - refusing to finish uploading anything, then refusing to finish running the terminal command that's supposed to finish the other unfinished thing. I'm going to end this misery now, I've had enough, it can wait till I return home in the new year, where it's just occurred to me I still, after several aborted attempts to finally abandon it for good, have my 13-year-old PC with a WinME partition on it. Yay! And besides which, if I stay awake some bearded red weirdo might come hurtling down the chimney. Dear Santa, please could you fix my computers for me. I promise to be a good boy. Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org