First, I'll start by explaining how I got my problem, this will help me get across what I need.
A few months ago, my laptop hard disk broke. I had no quick replacement, but I needed that laptop the next day, so all I could do was to rip the 2.5" drive out from my router. The router was actually an ATX PC, running OpenBSD 4.9. Now, since I needed that drive very quickly, I created an image with dd
on my desktop computer, put the drive into the laptop and installed Fedora.
OK, now I have a replacement hard drive for my laptop, and before I start installing stuff on the hard drive that is going back into the router, I was asking myself, how I could mount the image that I made when I started...
The point is, I could make a fresh install of the latest OpenBSD and then just use things like config files from the image. The only thing I know of that I can do now, is simply write the image back to the disk with dd
. This should work and all that, but I'd like to use the opportunity to upgrade the system as well.
I tried mounting the OpenBSD partitions before making the image, but it didn't work, and I had very little time (only a couple of hours on this one evening). Should I write back the image to disk, then try to mount it, recover the files I need and then install the latest OpenBSD?
dd
andmount
+ actual error messages. Also output offdisk -l backup.img
would be nice. Have posted one answer, – comment if any problems.