Is there any new/better way of loopback mounting individual partitions from within a file that contains a partition table on linux? I see the following but they are somewhat dated.
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2005-01/7183.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2005-01/msg00077.html
Let's asy $IMAGE is set to the path to your image file. You could write a small script by using
fdisk -ul $IMAGE
to get a list of partitions inside the image. And then use a sequence of
mount -o ro,loop,offset=$OFFSET -t auto $IMAGE /media/$DEST
Where offset is calculated means the info from fdisk (start sector * size of a sector in bytes) and $DEST a unique name for each of the partitions.
Ok that's not directly the solution but I hope a pretty good indication on how to realize it. If you make the job once, you've some small nice beginning for some forensic toolkit! :-)