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 1JFhm9-0004EZ-4f for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:20:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0394BE0C8F; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:19:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mercury.eclipse.kcom.com (mercury.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.61]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45F74E0C71 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:19:47 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,213,1199664000"; d="scan'208";a="227734304" Received: from compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org ([213.152.39.90]) by mercury.eclipse.kcom.com with ESMTP; 18 Jan 2008 03:19:46 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.71] (funf.stroller.uk.eu.org [192.168.1.71]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36CD113796F for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:19:46 +0000 (GMT) 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 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <6155E8C0-9F4B-446D-BE24-EAC2BCEC82D5@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Stroller Subject: [gentoo-user] "loopback mount" hard-drive image created with dd? Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:19:49 +0000 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Archives-Salt: 5ba118e6-2558-44f7-8404-b8aa6a2eb5e2 X-Archives-Hash: 7b90fd6e1eab12dcd56f3ec5f0a7ab48 Hi there, Before installing on a new laptop which came with Vista pre-installed I took an image of the hard-drive using dd. (ie: `dd if=/dev/sda of=/ mnt/sdb1/disk.img`, where /mnt/sdb1 was a portable USB hard-drive). Obviously the intention was that if I b0rked things up I could just `dd` the image back onto the laptop and all would work as the manufacturer shipped it, but I'd now find it useful to be able to take a look inside the image and examine a few files. Is there any way to do this, please? I'm fairly confident that there were originally a couple of partitions on the drive, and the one I want to look at will be NTFS, of course. I know that a CD iso I can mount using `mount file.iso / mnt/cdrom -t iso9660 -o loop`, but is there an equivalent for whole partition tables? Thanks in advance for any suggestions or advices, Stroller. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list