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Eric S. Johansson wrote: |
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> I'm helping some people using gentoo and one of the tasks is the |
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> production of flash memory updates for the firewall. The script for |
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> producing flash images contains calculations determining sector |
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> offsets so that the disk image can be treated as a partitioned disk. |
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> Is there anyway to treat a file as if it were a physical disk from the |
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> partitioning through mounting of each individual partition and its |
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> unmounting? I can keep doing it the clumsy error-prone way if I need |
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> to him but I was just trying to find out if there was an option that |
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> reduced the opportunity for mistakes. |
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Maybe user-mode linux or vmware could be useful for this... |
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-Richard |
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