2008/11/6 Markus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 16:50:34 +0000 > "Tom Crick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Using g4u v2.3, I copied the whole of my old broken laptop's 40GB hard >> drive to an image (which compressed to ~22GB). This image currently >> resides on a server, but I would like to know if it is possible to >> deploy this image locally onto a partition on this machine, possibly >> using a loopback device? Basically, I have a new laptop that I don't >> want to put the image onto, only want to extract some files from one >> of the three partitions on the image (Win XP NTFS, FAT32 shared, ext3 >> Linux). Is it possible to use g4u to do this to a local partition? > > if g4u creates its images with "dd" then it should be quite easy: take > some (e.g.) FreeBSD machine and mount the image simply using "mount". I > guess Linux and others do the same job just as fine.
Solved: by using losetup and mount, created a loop device and used fdisk to work out the offsets of the partitions and mount them individually. Cheers, Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ g4u-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
