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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[-- Attachment #1 --] Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Hi, > I am doing some work recently on small FreeBSD images (picobsd and friends), > and I need to run on a linux machine some script to customize > both the UFS and the ISO image. > > 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. > > 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. > > I know that bsdtar can read ISO images, but I don't think it does > the same on UFS. If I understand you correctly, you may try mounting the images in Linux, with suitably compiled kernel. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFITT2SldnAQVacBcgRAjuLAJ9LWgKY6pc9+FydLY88g2piIE3gXACgm2bU x2u906OyMUPpK2DCALlWoI4= =bR1h -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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