Carlos M. Martinez-Cagnazzo

I have created disk images for forensic purposes (artifact analysis and such). The questions is: given a "dd" image created from the whole, raw device, how do I mount individual partitions?

Let's say that the device I want to analyze resides in /dev/sdc, and that I have some large storage mounted under /mnt/largedisk and that I have cread the forensic image using the following command:

If you use VmWare with Debian-based Linux guests (Debian, Ubuntu, etc.) you probably have been annoyed by the following behaviour: You copy / move your guest, or in my case, you boot your guest both from Windows and from Linux; next time you try to boot, you have no network.

I use "Unison" regularly as a folder synchronization tool. As much as I have searched, I have yet to find something that comes even close to it as a sync tool. However, Unison has its dark side as well. Unison, defying all reason, is not backward compatible with itself, and worse, has no fallback mechanisms built-in.

If you are like me, chances are that you could not resist the urge to download and install Microsoft's public beta of the upcoming Windows 7 release.

So, I did install it at the expense of having my Fedora 10 GRUB overwritten by Windows 7's installer. Although W7 works fine now, I lost the ability to boot into FC10.

I booted the laptop using my FC 10 LiveCD and tried to do the mount root / chroot / grub-install routine that is described everywhere in the Internet, but I found that the chrooted system has no devices under /dev and this makes grub-install fail.

6to4 is one of the many transition mechanisms proposed by the IETF to ease the move towards an IPv6 internet. It is a tunneling protocol which encapsulates IPv6 packets in the payload of an IPv4 packet, with the added feature that the remote endpoint (the 6to4 Relay) of the tunnel configures itself automatically and uses a well-known anycast IPv4 address.

Instalé Linux (Gentoo) en un server IBM x206m. Lo interesante es que esta caja usa discos SATA / SAS (Serial Attached SCSI), y de lo cual existe soporte solo para versiones recientes del Kernel.

El proceso a grandes rasgos:

I had to install Linux (Gentoo) on an IBM x206m server. Remarkable in this box is the use of SATA / SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) hard drives. Only very recent kernels support this kind of storage, and even so they need a firmware blob to be appropiately loaded for the controller to work at all.

Some references can be found on the Internet (although not many). Here is a quick reference of the steps involved to make this box work.