On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > Stroller wrote: > > 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. > > Try this... > > modprobe loop > modprobe ntfs > > mkdir /mnt/iso > > mount -t ntfs /path/to/your/iso /mnt/iso -o loop,ro > > Assuming the iso is ntfs and you have loop and ntfs as modules... > > Cheers.
Won't work. He already said the .iso is a *disk* image, not a *file system* image. The ntfs driver (or any sane file system driver) will not know what to do with a block image complete with partition tables and boot records. alan -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
