From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DyDJq-0003MY-C9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:41:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6SIe0hK006033; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:40:00 GMT Received: from smtp111.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp111.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6SIaNeK010356 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:36:24 GMT Received: (qmail 47200 invoked from network); 28 Jul 2005 18:36:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.50.105?) (richard?j?fish@212.180.33.26 with plain) by smtp111.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Jul 2005 18:36:54 -0000 Message-ID: <42E92679.8070204@asmallpond.org> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:39:53 +0200 From: Richard Fish User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050723) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] question about files as disks References: <42E92193.6020804@harvee.org> In-Reply-To: <42E92193.6020804@harvee.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8f3768e5-47c7-4ae6-8b6d-08a289b17d3b X-Archives-Hash: 32384a0243c627f1ff785f3d12295635 Eric S. Johansson wrote: > I'm helping some people using gentoo and one of the tasks is the > production of flash memory updates for the firewall. The script for > producing flash images contains calculations determining sector > offsets so that the disk image can be treated as a partitioned disk. > > Is there anyway to treat a file as if it were a physical disk from the > partitioning through mounting of each individual partition and its > unmounting? I can keep doing it the clumsy error-prone way if I need > to him but I was just trying to find out if there was an option that > reduced the opportunity for mistakes. > Maybe user-mode linux or vmware could be useful for this... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list