Re: [gentoo-user] installing lomount

2008-05-13 Thread PaulNM
Alan McKinnon wrote: http://www.nabble.com/%22loopback-mount%22-hard-drive-image-created-w ith-dd--td14945355.html He doesn't want to mount a dd'ed *filesystem* as a loopback device, he wants to mount a single filesystem out of several which is inside an entire diskimage file. losetup won'

Re: [gentoo-user] installing lomount

2008-05-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 13 May 2008, PaulNM wrote: > Even better would be losetup from sys-apps/util-linux. > > see: > > http://www.nabble.com/%22loopback-mount%22-hard-drive-image-created-w >ith-dd--td14945355.html He doesn't want to mount a dd'ed *filesystem* as a loopback device, he wants to mount a singl

Re: [gentoo-user] installing lomount

2008-05-13 Thread PaulNM
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 e

Re: [gentoo-user] installing lomount

2008-05-11 Thread Joe User
Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2008 13:40:18 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On Sunday 11 May 2008, Martin Lehmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > i want to use lomount for mounting a partition out of a diskimage. > > > > I am sure that lomount is part of sys-apps/util-linux, but it is > > not there after the emerge. > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] installing lomount

2008-05-11 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 13:24 +0200, Martin Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > i want to use lomount for mounting a partition out of a diskimage. > > I am sure that lomount is part of sys-apps/util-linux, but it is not > there after the emerge. > > Any hints? It's parte of xen-tools. But if you don't wan

Re: [gentoo-user] installing lomount

2008-05-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
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 faste

Re: [gentoo-user] installing lomount

2008-05-11 Thread Martin Lehmann
According to this very useful site: http://www.portagefilelist.de/index.php/Special:PFLQuery the only package that provides lomount is xen. Which seems odd. ok, its seems that this will only be the last chance if nothing else will work. What is it that you want to do? Do you have a single f

Re: [gentoo-user] installing lomount

2008-05-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 11. Mai 2008, Martin Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > i want to use lomount for mounting a partition out of a diskimage. > > I am sure that lomount is part of sys-apps/util-linux, but it is not > there after the emerge. > > Any hints? emerge xen-tools -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing l

Re: [gentoo-user] installing lomount

2008-05-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 11 May 2008, Martin Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > i want to use lomount for mounting a partition out of a diskimage. > > I am sure that lomount is part of sys-apps/util-linux, but it is not > there after the emerge. > > Any hints? According to this very useful site: http://www.portagefilelis

[gentoo-user] installing lomount

2008-05-11 Thread Martin Lehmann
Hi, i want to use lomount for mounting a partition out of a diskimage. I am sure that lomount is part of sys-apps/util-linux, but it is not there after the emerge. Any hints? regards, Martin -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list