Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to loopback mount partition from a disk image

[Stroller]

On 23 Nov 2009, at 18:50, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Montag 23 November 2009, Stroller wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> With reference to a couple of previous threads:
>>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/193263
>>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/197120
>>
>> Here's what I'm trying:
>>
>> $ ls -lh sda.dd.img
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 stroller users 77G 2009-11-22 03:51 sda.dd.img
>> $ file sda.dd.img
>> sda.dd.img: x86 boot sector, Microsoft Windows XP MBR, Serial
>> 0x1890189; partition 1: ID=0x7, active, starthead 1, startsector 63,
>> 160810587 sectors, code offset 0xc0
>> ...
>
> yeah, you don't need to use losetup. I mounted a lot of images over
> the years
> and I never used losetup.

How do I do it then, please?

Note, it's an image of an entire hard-drive, imaged using `dd` or GNU  
`ddrescue`, so it also includes the MBR & partition table. It's not  
just a partition or an .iso optical disk image.

Stroller.