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Stroller wrote: |
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> Hi there, |
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> Before installing on a new laptop which came with Vista pre-installed |
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> I took an image of the hard-drive using dd. (ie: `dd if=/dev/sda of=/ |
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> mnt/sdb1/disk.img`, where /mnt/sdb1 was a portable USB hard-drive). |
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> Obviously the intention was that if I b0rked things up I could just |
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> `dd` the image back onto the laptop and all would work as the |
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> manufacturer shipped it, but I'd now find it useful to be able to |
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> take a look inside the image and examine a few files. Is there any |
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> way to do this, please? |
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> I'm fairly confident that there were originally a couple of |
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> partitions on the drive, and the one I want to look at will be NTFS, |
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> of course. I know that a CD iso I can mount using `mount file.iso / |
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> mnt/cdrom -t iso9660 -o loop`, but is there an equivalent for whole |
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> partition tables? |
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> Thanks in advance for any suggestions or advices, |
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> Stroller. |
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Try this... |
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modprobe loop |
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modprobe ntfs |
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mkdir /mnt/iso |
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mount -t ntfs /path/to/your/iso /mnt/iso -o loop,ro |
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Assuming the iso is ntfs and you have loop and ntfs as modules... |
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Cheers. |
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Jerry McBride (jmcbride@×××××××.us) |
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From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride |
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