[pocket-linux] Reverse the diskette image process

[David Horton]

> I see that you have the image files for download off of a website.  I
> was wondering if there was to reverse the proceedure and take the image
> files that I download and convert them back to an editable file
> structure I can modify on my hard drive because I am having problems
> with the images that I create.
>  
> Thanks,
> Dave Henderson
> 

Dave,

Here's how you can do it.

1 Download the image file to your Linux system.
2 If it has a .gz extension, gunzip it.
3 Extract the image to an unused ramdisk like this:
  dd if=imagefile of=/dev/ram7 bs=1k
4 Then mount the ramdisk like this:
  mount /dev/ram7 /mnt
5 Now you can access all the files from the image.

For a detailed explanation of this procedure look ahead to Appendix A.


Also, if you are running into difficulty when building images you might
want to check out the preview of version 1.1 of the guide.  Since I
upgraded my Linux box to Slackware 8 I noticed somethings were not
working quite right when I worked through the guide again to build the
diskete images.  Hopefully these bugs are worked out in 1.1.  There's a
link to the 1.1 preview on the support site
(http://my.core.com/~dhorton/linux/pocket).

Thanks for joining the mailing list and good luck building.


Dave