On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 03:28:20PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Saturday 07 February 2009 13:37:46 Thomas H. George wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 10:44:47AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > On Saturday 07 February 2009 10:31:17 Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > What must I do to be able to mount this image file? > > > Could you run "file debxo-awesome.ext3.img" can provide the output? > > dragon:/data/olpc# file debxo-awesome.ext3.img > > debxo-awesome.ext3.img: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0x83, active, > > starthead 1, startsector 32, 3848160 sectors dragon:/data/olpc# exit > > It looks like it is a whole-disk image -- the first part of it appears to be > an MBR. You'll need to use some loopback parameters to skip the MBR and > partition table. I think you only need to skip 512 bytes... could you try: > tail -c +513 debxo-awesome.ext3.img | file - > and see if that reports that it found an ext3 filesystem.
Script started on Sat 07 Feb 2009 05:14:12 PM EST dragon:/data/olpc# tail -c +513 debxo-awesome.ext3.img | file - /dev/stdin: GRand Unified Bootloader stage1_5 version 3.2, identifier 0x2, GRUB version 0.97, configuration file \377 dragon:/data/olpc# exit Script done on Sat 07 Feb 2009 05:15:09 PM EST So I tried Script started on Sat 07 Feb 2009 05:20:59 PM EST dragon:/data/olpc# mount -o loop.offset=512 -t ext3 debxo-awesome.ext3.img /medi a/sdloop mount: /data/olpc/debxo-awesome.ext3.img is not a block device (maybe try `-o loop'?) dragon:/data/olpc# exit which seemed to be what the Debian Reference suggested but I guess this is not quite right. Script done on Sat 07 Feb 2009 05:21:57 PM EST > > > The image was meant to be transfered to a USB device but the > > instructions said that if the device was less than 2 Gb it could be loop > > mounted as ext3 in order to copy the guts of the image to a smaller USB > > device. > > It can be, but in this case it's not as simple as just using the loop mount > option, unfortunately. You'll probably need just the additional offset > option. Once we find the offset, things should be "easy"; although, after > you > move the files over, you'll also want to dd the MBR over as well. > -- > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. > b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) > ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' > http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/ > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
