editing a root.img file without dd

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editing a root.img file without dd

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Name: Gajendra Deshmukh
Date: March 29, 2001 at 13:06:54 Pacific
Subject: editing a root.img file without dd

Comment:

My friend email me a root.img file
that contains his harddrive and told
me to - dd - it to a partition.
But, my linux machine has crashed for
now and I am re-compiling the
kernal.
I there any way to edit the root.img
file from windows.
Can anyone help ?

Thank you in advance.

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Response Number 1

Name: Apple
Date: March 29, 2001 at 14:24:44 Pacific
Subject: editing a root.img file without dd

Reply: (edit)

correct me if I'm wrong,
You can boot from a floppy then mount the root.img file into your file system. It'll act as if you mounted an actual partition. This still requires Linux, but just a boot floppy. The disk you used to install Linux with should do the trick (assuming you didn't install from a bootable CD).
You may need to mount the partition you copied it to first.

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