A while back for a forensics assignment, I had to complete a task that involved analysing a VirtualBox disk image. I wrote a quick script that converted the VDI image to RAW (.img) format by just stripping out some headers. I knew at the time that it wouldn’t support split images. It turns out that [...]

This isn’t mentioned enough online – how to mount an ISO (like, the Solaris 10 ISO) on a Solaris 10 box. With Linux, you’d just mount the device as a loopback file system. With Solaris, you need to use lofiadm to first create the device under /dev/lofi (the exact device name is printed out after [...]