[ILUG] vmware and dd'ed copies of disks

[Paul Jakma]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, kevin lyda wrote:

> doesn't vmware support some sort of raw disk format?  or does
> that need to be a block device?

it does i thought. but i cant get it work.

it might be cause my images are of whole disks, not a partitions.

i've tried to use dd to extract the partitions to seperate files from 
the whole disk image, but either:

1. dd's seek is not doing what i want
2. fdisk is lying to me
3. i've misinterpreted the output from fdisk
4. or some other mistake on my part

cause the resulting partition image file is definitely not the 
partition i want. rather it seems to contain stuff from before the 
partition i'm trying to dd out.

i'll post the details of what i'm trying to do when i get in to work. 
(work is where the .bash_history lies).

> kevin

PS: and yes, i realise that cause it's me, options 3 and 4 are the 
most likely... you can save the witticisms. :)

regards,
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