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Date:      Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:26:26 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: any simple tool to extract files from an UFS image ?
Message-ID:  <g2jeii$3ht$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080609141441.GA5025@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
References:  <20080609141441.GA5025@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>

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Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> Hi,
> I am doing some work recently on small FreeBSD images (picobsd and frie=
nds),
> and I need to run on a linux machine some script to customize
> both the UFS and the ISO image.
>=20
> Because the customization is just writing some text into a file,
> my approach is to put in the UFS image a file with a recognizable
> start and end markers, and then dd into the image the stuff I need.
>=20
> I was wondering if i could avoid shipping both images, and instead
> use some trick to extract the tree from the UFS image and then
> use mkisofs on the linux side to build the ISO.
>=20
> I know that bsdtar can read ISO images, but I don't think it does
> the same on UFS.=20

If I understand you correctly, you may try mounting the images in Linux,
with suitably compiled kernel.


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