Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sunday 11 May 2008, Martin Lehmann wrote:
>> Now the problem is, that this is a image of a whole hdd. I only need
>> one partition out of it.
>>
>> Then i want to copy the content of this partition to a partition
>> located of the "real" hdd
>
> A brute force approach, but probably the easiest and fastest:
>
> Assign this image to a VirtualBox vm and start it. Or get a vm to use
> it, even if you have tot move it to another machine. Then scp it off
> the vm onto the real hardware.
>
> Inelegant, but works :-)
>

Even better would be losetup from sys-apps/util-linux.

see:

http://www.nabble.com/%22loopback-mount%22-hard-drive-image-created-with-dd--td14945355.html


PaulNM
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