On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 01:23:06AM -0500, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: > On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 12:23:07PM +0800, a wrote: > > My floppy drive does not work. Can I read files in image file such as > > resc1440.bin? > > To read the files on the rescue disk (which is a FAT filesystem): > > mount -o loop -t msdos rescue.bin /mnt > > To read the files on the root disk (which is a compressed ext2 filesystem) > > Backup file: cp root.bin temp_root.bin.gz > decompress: gunzip temp_root.bin.gz
or: zcat root.bin > tmp_root.bin > mount: mount -o loop -t ext2 temp_root.bin /mnt beware if you have any user accounts other then yourself you should mount that: mount -o loop,nodev -t ext2 tmp_root.bin /mnt the /dev nodes on the root floppy image do not have secure permissions. (they are all 644) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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