[Fedora-livecd-list] Kadischi Live CD First Look {SOLVED}

Jasper Hartline jasperhartline at adelphia.net
Tue Sep 19 10:19:12 UTC 2006


dexter wrote:

>>Does in fact install them correctly. The offset for the LiveUSB image here:
>>http://autopsy.liveprojects.info/LIVE/USB/ is exactly 63 secotrs.
>>This means the mount -o option would be offset=32256 to mount the Ext2
>>filesystem.
>>Then you can poke around and see how I've done it, with stock Fedora
>>Core packages, unmodified.
>>
>>J. Hartline
>>    
>>
> hello jasper 
>
>errm I had trouble using your instuctions and mounting the image with
>[root at dexterFC5t1 ~]# mount -v -t ext2 -o offset=32256 SDA-256MB-FEDORA-CORE-5-BASED-i386-LIVEUSB.IMG tmp
>gave an error but was mounted with the help of file 
>
>[root at dexterFC5t1 ~]# file -s SDA-256MB-FEDORA-CORE-5-BASED-i386-LIVEUSB.IMG
>SDA-256MB-FEDORA-CORE-5-BASED-i386-LIVEUSB.IMG: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0x83, starthead 1, startsector 61, 493795 sectors, extended partition table (last)\011, code offset 0x48
>
>startsector 61 and 61*512=31232
>[root at dexterFC5t1 ~]# mount -v -t ext2 -o offset=31232 SDA-256MB-FEDORA-CORE-5-BASED-i386-LIVEUSB.IMG tmp
>mount: going to use the loop device /dev/loop0
>SDA-256MB-FEDORA-CORE-5-BASED-i386-LIVEUSB.IMG on /root/tmp type ext2 (rw,loop=/dev/loop0,offset=31232)
>
>did it great smashing super :-)   ...dex
>
>  
>
Doh! Yes, 61 sectors, not 63.
;-)

J. Hartline




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