Fedora mount a corrupted Win Fat32 (vfat) file system

[Chadley Wilson]

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 00:54, Andy Green wrote:
I said
> > Once you dd a file it becomes an iso
> > The correct command would be
> > mount -o loop -t iso9660 <file.img>
> >
> > Well I think this is correct and it did work and my win95 fat 16 drive
> 
> dd just copies raw data around... it does not recook the filesystem into 
> iso9660 like mkisofs.  I think you must be mis-remembering.
> 
> - -Andy
> 
> - -- 
I am not looking for a fight but I did it again and it works heres the
outputs as proof, I don't know maybe I suffer from a bug that works in
my favour :~}


[root at localhost chadley]# mount -o loop -t iso9660
/home/chadley/isos/techimgs/win98disk.img  /home/chadley/windoze/
[root at localhost chadley]# ls -la windoze/
total 349876
drwxr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley      4096 Apr  5 22:19 .
drwx------   90 chadley  chadley      4096 Apr  7 21:40 ..
-rwxr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley    800730 Feb 26 20:03 4000v41.exe
-rwxr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley       240 Oct 29  1998 91TST1.txt
-rwxr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley       244 Oct 29  1998 91TST.txt
-rwxr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley         0 Feb 16 13:14 AUTOEXEC.BAT
drwxr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley      4096 Feb 17 11:54 B1LiteInstall
-rwxr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley       194 Feb 16 13:06 boot.ini
-rwxr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley         0 Feb 16 13:14 CONFIG.SYS
drwxr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley      4096 Mar 11 10:31 Documents and
Settings
drwxr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley      4096 Mar 15 22:58 floppy
-r-xr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley         0 Feb 16 13:14 IO.SYS
drwxr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley      4096 Apr  5 22:19 linux shit
-r-xr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley         0 Feb 16 13:14 MSDOS.SYS
-r-xr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley     47580 Aug 28  2002 NTDETECT.COM
-r-xr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley    233632 Aug 29  2002 ntldr
-rwxr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley       713 Mar 30 15:31 os694301.bin
-rwxr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley  352321536 Mar 31 18:02 pagefile.sys
-rwxr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley       754 Feb 23 13:00 PINN91.txt
dr-xr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley      4096 Mar 29 04:40 Program Files
drwxr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley      4096 Feb 17 10:03 RECYCLER
drwxr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley      4096 Feb 19 07:47 serials
drwxr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley      4096 Feb 16 15:12 swacc
drwxr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley      4096 Feb 16 13:19 System Volume
Information
-rwxr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley        20 Feb 23 10:44 test.txt
drwxr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley      4096 Mar  3 19:11 UBiforms
-rwxr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley   4811770 Mar 31 05:48 Update.exe
drwxr-xr-x    1 chadley  chadley      4096 Mar 20 16:14 WINDOWS
[root at localhost chadley]#



Could it be I created the image in a special way without realising it?



 
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