Restoring Data from a DD image

Bill Schmitt (SW) software at schmittnet.com
Thu Oct 6 11:11:16 PDT 2005


I've just replaced a hard disk that was dying fast. I've done a full 
installation of 4.9 (later releases won't install, which I've submitted 
a problem report on already). The old disk is connected but not mounted. 
Searching around, I found some suggestions to try to read the old disk 
to restore what I can and I used dd to copy what could be found (dd 
-if=/dev/ad0s1e of=/usr/olddsk/oldimag.dmg conv=noerror,sync) and it 
seems to have copied the file. Now, I'm a little stuck. Can someone help 
me understand how do I mount that image somewhere to browse it and copy 
what I can from it? If I'm not going about this the right way, I'd 
appreciate other suggestions




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