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On Friday 18 January 2008 02:19:21 pm Jerry McBride wrote: |
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> On Friday 18 January 2008 01:54:58 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: |
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> > > On Friday 18 January 2008 01:01:18 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > > > Won't work. He already said the .iso is a *disk* image, not a *file |
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> > > > system* image. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > The ntfs driver (or any sane file system driver) will not know what |
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> > > > to do with a block image complete with partition tables and boot |
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> > > > records. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > alan |
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> > > I don't doubt what you wrote, but I've done exactly that many times |
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> > > and never had a problem. Is this some kind of ntfs support issue? |
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> > > |
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> > > Just this morning, I ran dd to make an image of a usbstick I dearly |
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> > > love... I just now mounted the image as vfat as stated above and I |
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> > > have complete access to the data on it... Is the ntfs module that |
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> > > different? Just curious. |
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> > Do you have partitions on that memory stick? |
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> Yes. |
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OK... It just got through my dense head! He has "multiple partitions" in his |
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disk image, not one.... |
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What I proposed will fail in that case, but will work with "just one" |
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partition in the image... |
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It's a shame too. |
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Cheers. |
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From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride |
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