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>>>>> "Stroller" == Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> writes: |
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Stroller> Would that work? I've never used VMs - are their drive images exactly |
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Stroller> "blocky" as my `dd` command would produce? |
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Stroller> (`dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/sdb1/disk.img`, where /mnt/sdb1 was a |
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Stroller> portable USB hard-drive). |
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I installed FreeBSD on my box, this way, when I didn't have CD-ROM |
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drive on my box :) . I've used QEmu (AMD64), and it worked flawlessly :) . |
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Stroller> It looks like mtools is geared towards floppies but will handle a |
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Stroller> hard-drive fine. However the manual <http://mtools.linux.lu/ |
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mtools.html> suggests no support for NTFS. (??) |
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Another hack you can try is use to use '--offset' option of |
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'losetup'. First figure out from which byte, NTFS partition starts in |
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disk image, and then you create a loopback back device for that image |
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and the starting offset using 'losetup' and finally 'mount' the |
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loopback as NTFS partition :) . |
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Please do post your results, if you're successful :) |
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HTH |
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Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल http://wahjava.wordpress.com/ |
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