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Even bad things come to an end. This is it. Please unsubscribe to any feeds at this site you might be subscribed to. If you just can't get enough, I'm moving everything (well almost everything... the stuff people seem to read) here. Loveyameanit.

Bugzilla removed. Spammers got into it and all of this software is deprecated anyway. If you find a bug (ha!) and you really care about it, email me.

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I no longer plan to develop DMR or Parasite. There is much better blogware out there and the world is a different place than it was when I started writing DMR. I barely use it myself these days. I see that someone else is trying to make a business of a crippled version of it. Good luck! Join this group! 🙂

If anyone wants the working-but-very-difficult-to-install source for the latest version, email me and I’ll give it to you. The only real improvement is the RSS/Atom reader is much much much better.

So, this means that this site will probably get an overhaul as soon as real life and procrastination allow. I need to find a CMS that allows for blogs as well as static content.

This post is mostly a reminder to myself. If you ever dd a whole disk to a file and you need to loopback mount an individual partition from that file, here’s how:

  • sfdisk -l -uS myimg.img
    • Disk myimg.img: cannot get geometry
      
      Disk myimg.img: 0 cylinders, 0 heads, 0 sectors/track
      Warning: The partition table looks like it was made
        for C/H/S=*/64/63 (instead of 0/0/0).
      For this listing I'll assume that geometry.
      Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0
      
         Device Boot    Start       End   #sectors  Id  System
      myimg.img1   *        63   3515903    3515841  83  Linux
      myimg.img2       3515904   4124735     608832  82  Linux swap / Solaris
      myimg.img3             0         -          0   0  Empty
      myimg.img4             0         -          0   0  Empty
      
  • Since “End” is the end point, not a count point, subtract the Start from the end:
    echo 3515903 - 63 | bc
    • 3515840
  • create a file with just the partition you want:
    dd if=myimg.img of=part1.img bs=512 skip=63 count=3515840
  • mount -o loop /path/to/part1.img /mnt

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