On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > On Friday 18 January 2008 01:01:18 pm Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Won't work. He already said the .iso is a *disk* image, not a *file > > system* image. > > > > The ntfs driver (or any sane file system driver) will not know what > > to do with a block image complete with partition tables and boot > > records. > > > > alan > > I don't doubt what you wrote, but I've done exactly that many times > and never had a problem. Is this some kind of ntfs support issue? > > Just this morning, I ran dd to make an image of a usbstick I dearly > love... I just now mounted the image as vfat as stated above and I > have complete access to the data on it... Is the ntfs module that > different? Just curious. Do you have partitions on that memory stick? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
