On Thu, 10 May 2001, mike stone wrote:
> the idea is simple.. if i make a binary disk image of a floppy or CD:
>
>      dd if=/dev/fd0a of=disk.img
>
> i'd like to mount that image as a file tree:
>
> 	mount_image disk.img /mnt
>
> without having to write it back to a block-special device, first.

You can use vnconfig and the vnd device to do this... assuming you have
a vnd device configured in your kernel, try something like:

# vnconfig vnd0 disk.img 512/18/2/80
# mount /dev/vnd0d /mnt

(or maybe /dev/vnd0c, depending on if you're on i386 or not...)
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