Quote Originally Posted by eadz
see the cloop readme
http://www.knopper.net/download/knoppix/cloop.README

you will have to compile that module for your running kernel. ( doesn't require a kernel recompile if you have the sources )

Mounting a compressed image (see above for device creation):
insmod cloop.o file=/path/to/compressed/image
mount -o ro -t whatever /dev/cloop /mnt/compressed
Do you know if there is a way to mount a compressed image( KNOPPIX ) from a running CDROM based Knoppix system?

I tried but because cloop is already loaded and associated with /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX, it just locks up the process.
Thanks.