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. Jerry McBride ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
