I remember this from a previous mailing list thread. The drive is byte-swapped. There are utils to read the drive, but it cannot be done via a standard program like Partition Magic, or from dos, or from your standard linux installation.
If I make the assumption that you are installing the image onto a new clean hard disk drive, you do NOT need to mount it.
All you need to do is follow the instructions per the boot CD.
Extra hints:
- /dev/hda - Primary Master Hard Disk
- /dev/hdb - Primary Slave Hard Disk
- /dev/hdc - Secondary Master Hard Disk
- /dev/hdd - Secondary Slave Hard Disk
The numbers that follow are the partitions. ie /dev/hda1 would be Primary Master Hard Disk drive, First Primary Partition. /dev/hda2 - Second primary partition. hda3 and hda4 are 3rd and 4th primary partitions. hda5 is an extended partition. hda6 is a logical partition based in the extended partition.
If you aren't following the concept. Imagine a Train. The train exists of 4 (hda1, hda2, hda3, hda4) primary engines pulling the load. The next car along is a container (hda5). The container can be full of logs (hda6), as well as coal (hda7). It's just one BIG container
Hope I've answered your question in a roundabout way :P
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