DSL Embedded :: Boot/qemu writable FS on USB

>Barring that, it'd be nice if we could mount the .img files as >a virtual drive, or edit them as if they were .isos or .zips.....

Actually you can unpack ISO's with MagicISO, you can get it here: http://www.magiciso.com/download.htm

there is also instructions on the main page of magiciso.com.

after you edit the iso all you do is restart qemu with newiso.

but qemu's disk format are not iso images - been there, tried that!

it IS possible to mount (raw) images as a virtual drive in linux, so yes, you can get access to the files inside the image outside of qemu. haven't tried writing to inside the image though.

iirc:

mkdir /mnt/newmntpoint
mount -o loop /path/to/imagefile /mnt/newmntpoint

>but qemu's disk format are not iso images - been there, tried that!

You didn't try hard enough then cause i mount ISO images using Qemu every time i wanna test the ISO to see if it will work or not.
I have also booted dsl1.4.iso with Qemu with no problems at all.

qemu -hda image.iso

original here.