Hi. On my Debian box, modules do get loaded automatically. Sounds like your problem is specific to Slackware. Kenny On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 06:06:00AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > Thanks to both of you. That did the trick. Now to get loop loaded > automatically whenever I want it. I thought modules were supposed to > load themselves when called upon - another point of ignorance on my > part I guess. > > Yes Greg, the loop file structure does the same thing on my Slack box > also. But -o loop works fine in the mount call so won't wory much > about that. > > As a side note, I just switched over from cdrtools to cdrkit as > cdrecord kept getting me errors with my newer burner. Cdrkit works > great with wodim so my CD manipulation needs are all met again.