Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 13:32:59 +1100 From: "John Saunders" <john.saunders@scitec.com.au> To: "Karl Pielorz" <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Mounting MSDOS hardrive image file? Message-ID: <003901be1109$6d577aa0$6cb611cb@saruman.scitec.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811142356050.4939-100000@caladan.tdx.co.uk>
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> I have a 20Mb 'image' file of an old MSDOS hard drive - is there any way I
> can mount this under FreeBSD? - I have the geometry for the drive, in case
> it's needed...
# man vn
# vnconfig /dev/vn0c old_harddisk_image
# mount_msdos /dev/vn0c /mnt
[use filesystem]
# vnconfig -d /dev/vn0c old_harddisk_image
You may have to strip off the partition table and the first few
sectors to convert the file into a filesystem image rather than
a hard disk image. You can usually just the first track. For
example if the drive has 63 sectors per track...
# dd if=disk_image of=filesys_image bs=512 skip=63
Cheers.
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