From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JFxxs-00042T-90 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:37:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C0E8E091E; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:36:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.188]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FA6FE091B for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:36:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 18so1761052fkq.2 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:36:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=uSgVzpAQghJh2E3a2JeenvAix1mzzdxjF+M1jecymF8=; b=WfIPAXrmmaoLTUVBntbegF84xDpZ4eFDR44eBI6xGbACj+IOStnkKfyRw1DAnFgIy5v35qnEDpOD3jFqiITYIFN2BaCqp1wMHqKLocfCpyGuB2ZsPLN7QKxgmJQ8DE/JDPGdzZAx0/lRAKD1Im+olIhOBc99ypdxAGrhfmDQuMI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=AvebzxnlTGIUAHHdG1ZOMHQTj80a6l4QvjuRjhi1qIDEnEcKye46150kuh4SIJ2xH6YedylyW3LE1BvB92oOf/kUauVDivylAQMLRuhTcdc56C7JHLOEgMdHaNs/NPi/n+IQUbXiaB7iLekBMnITEWTaJKRra3b4mSffIYSIvuk= Received: by 10.82.181.7 with SMTP id d7mr6758899buf.8.1200688613572; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:36:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy.study ( [213.162.120.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y34sm3329419iky.6.2008.01.18.12.36.51 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:36:52 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "loopback mount" hard-drive image created with dd? Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:35:33 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200801181255.21673.mcbrides9@comcast.net> <200801181419.21867.mcbrides9@comcast.net> <200801181438.02994.mcbrides9@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <200801181438.02994.mcbrides9@comcast.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1610387.JqzUs1A6Xi"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200801182035.45672.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 3afd2982-7736-470a-82ce-a187bb7cc1e8 X-Archives-Hash: 00831de30bfc52950b3ca73946759a5c --nextPart1610387.JqzUs1A6Xi Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > On Friday 18 January 2008 02:19:21 pm Jerry McBride wrote: > > On Friday 18 January 2008 01:54:58 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > > > > On Friday 18 January 2008 01:01:18 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > > Won't work. He already said the .iso is a *disk* image, not a *fi= le > > > > > system* image. > > > > > > > > > > The ntfs driver (or any sane file system driver) will not know wh= at > > > > > to do with a block image complete with partition tables and boot > > > > > records. > > > > > > > > > > alan > > > > > > > > I don't doubt what you wrote, but I've done exactly that many times > > > > and never had a problem. Is this some kind of ntfs support issue? > > > > > > > > Just this morning, I ran dd to make an image of a usbstick I dearly > > > > love... I just now mounted the image as vfat as stated above and I > > > > have complete access to the data on it... Is the ntfs module that > > > > different? Just curious. > > > > > > Do you have partitions on that memory stick? > > > > Yes. > > OK... It just got through my dense head! He has "multiple partitions" in > his disk image, not one.... > > What I proposed will fail in that case, but will work with "just one" > partition in the image... > > It's a shame too. > > Cheers. I have mounted through loopback USB stick images that I dd onto my hard dri= ve,=20 but had no partition table (like a floppy sort of thing). I am thinking=20 aloud here, could the OP chainload the NTFS image using Grub -=20 notwithstanding that Vista is using a slightly different booting scheme tha= n=20 the WinXP NTLDR.exe? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista_Startup_Process =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1610387.JqzUs1A6Xi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHkQ2h5Fp0QerLYPcRAjY1AKCSupqulPU7DDsvSOKm/hruKPLU4ACgzisy rBvsL1qkvvecA0is5mZj3pY= =eN/u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1610387.JqzUs1A6Xi-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list