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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, sindi keesan wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
>
> > sindi keesan wrote:
> >>
> >> Steven's method was too complicated to understand.
> >
> > Which part was too complicated?  You gunzip baslinux.gz.
> > You mount it.  You edit it.  You umount it.  You gzip it.
>
> How do you mount a file system rather than a partition?
> mount /hd/baslinux.gz /tmp ?

If it's an image file you mount it as a looped device:

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mount -o loop baslinux /mnt/loop
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You uncompress it first, like Steven was saying.  When it's uncompressed,
you have a raw disk image you can mount on any unused mount point on your
system.  Then, you can chroot into it for editing.  Or simply browse the
files with mc or some file manager to delete things.  A looped image file
is how standard BL3 works: it mounts the root filesystem image you store
on your DOS partition and boots into it.  You've been using this method
all along with BL3 booting from a DOS partition.

James