2015-05-24 Some time ago, I did a dd image of a whole disk. Now, I wanted to mount one of its partitions. The web told me how to do that. First, you need to find out at which block the partition starts. `fdisk -l image.dd' prints that information. In my case it was the first partition, starting at block 63. Then mount the partition like this: mount -o loop,offset=`expr 63 \* 512`,ro image.dd /mnt/ You need to multiply the starting block number with the block size 512. To prepare for a gaming weekend, I set up both, Zockerbox and Zockhobel, afresh with Windows XP. First, I thought, that I should clone the newly installed system partition, to be able to write it back verbatimly if the system gets messed up, but now I think that it's not worth it. If I'll mess up, I'll just install from scratch. I do this gaming much too seldom that it would be worth any extra effort. The procedure is already simple enough: (1) Install any old Windows (2k or XP). (2) Install drivers for the hardware. (3) Copy the only necessary game (CS 1.5). And I'm done. It's amazing how well CS 1.5 runs unter a modern version of wine. I've tried this years ago and had crashes every 5 to 90 minutes. Today, someone ran the game emulated for hours on a current Ubun- tu with wine, without any problems and fast enough. Maybe I should take that road to the future. (But first, I need to check how well Morrowind and Colin McRae 2 work with wine. If I get these three games emulated, I'll never ever need Windows again. ;-) ) http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke