Paul

when you issue the 'mount' command that fails you what is returned in
/var/log/messages regarding that command?

Just some random questions until the above is returned;

You have your NTFS driver compiled into the kernel or as a module?

Which NTFS driver are you using? (from NTFS Linux Sourceforge or stock
RHL 8.0 NTFS driver [same source, but different versions])

What does 'xxd /ntfs_image_file | less' return, the first 512?

The image file you created, is it of a logical volume or a physical
device? Remember you cannot mount physical image files but you can
specify the starting offset for the logical volume during mount.

Right now I'm thinking you're trying to mount an image file of a
physical disk, but let us know!

regards,

farmerdude

On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 11:31, Sabol, Paul wrote:
> I have been trying to mount an NTFS image file based on a procedure I had
> for mounting floppy disk images and viewing them read only.
>
> Basically, I md5 the original drive, make a working directory on my Linux
> drive, and then 'dd if=/dev/hdc of=testing.bin conv=notrunc,noerror,sync".
> I then make a /mnt/windows directory to be used as the mount point and chmod
> 777 this directory.
>
> The binary file is created fine, and the md5 hash of the file is the same as
> the original drive. But here is where I get stuck.
>
> I do the following:
>
> # losetup /dev/loop0 testing.bin
> # mount -r -t ntfs /dev/loop0 /mnt/windows
>
> It keeps telling me:
>
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
> I am sure there are not too many mounted file systems, and I am sure the
> original drive from which the dd came was NTFS. I have ntfs compiled in the
> kernel. I'm using Red Hat 8.0 for this.
>
> Anyone have any ideas, or is what I am attempting even possible?
>
>
>
> Paul G. Sabol
>
>
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