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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?
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 13:32:59 +1100
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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

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