Re: Mount a .bin file in Linux

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 clint@robotic.com wrote:
> Help! I've created a .bin file of a Windows XP system using an
> X-Late HardCopy device (in image mode). I thought I could simply
> mount the image in Linux (I'm using Helix 0307) using:
>
> # mount -o loop -t iso9660 image001.bin /media/test
>
> but that doesn't work (mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 
> /dev/loop1, missing codepage or other error).
>
> Any ideas how I can mount a .bin image in Helix so I can investigate
> it? I can mount it in Autopsy, but I want the OS to see it.

I am not sure what is the type of the data in the image. If it is an
image of CD, then you can convert .bin+.cue to .iso and mount .iso
(if you do not have .cue you can easily create it).
Search for `bin cue iso' for more information.

If it is an image of a hard drive partition, then the file system is
not iso, so you may try mount to guess it or use some likely types.

If it is an image of whole hard drive, then you may try to mount the
image to a loop device (search for `losetup'), and inspect its
partition table with, say, cfdisk or sfdisk. Once you found offset of
the partition you want, you can put it on loop (-o offset in losetup)
and mount it.

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Regards,
ASK