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Re: Emulating debian installer



On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 12:06:28PM +0200, Bob Alexander wrote:
> Is there a way to use some emulator easily to simulate the use of the 
> debian installer ? Tried reading bochs and xen but did not understand if 
> it is possible.

With xen probably no, bochs is fine, albeit a bit slow.
I would recommend using qemu:

# install qemu
apt-get install qemu
# create 1GB HDD
dd of=hd.img bs=1024 seek=1000000 count=0
# boot the whole thing
qemu -boot d -cdrom /path/to/cdrom -hda hd.img

-- 
Miroslav Kure



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