I have mounted partition images using "mount -o loop" many time before, but never a whole disk image. I figured that you may need to interrogate the partition table and then "dd" off the partition from the disk image.
It seems that this HOWTO http://edseek.com/~jasonb/articles/linux_loopback.html tells you how to do it directly. (fdisk can read a disk image file, and mount allows you to specify an offset). But it seems to refer to some patching of a
2.4 kernel to get it to work with ext2. So your mileage may vary.
As you have a file to work with - make sure you work with a copy!
Martin
On 9/19/06, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a disk image of a CompactFlash disk as a file on a PC. The image
was created by using dd.
I know that the image has a partition table, a Linux (83) partition and
a Linux Swap (82) partition. The Linux partition is formatted ext2.
I want to be able to mount the Linux partition rw somewhere onto the
PC's file system so that I can work on it using an editor.
Any HOWTOs?...
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