Testing the Skolelinux CD in an emulator on Woody

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

I've just tested installing skolelinux using qemu.  It is not as
flexible or "userfriendly" as VMWare and bochs, but it is fast.  Here
are instructions to test skolelinux in a virtual machine on woody.

 - Fetch qemu backport (APT source 'deb
   ftp://ftp.skolelinux.no/skolelinux/ woody local').

 - Fetch CD image from
   <URL:ftp://ftp.skolelinux.no/debian-cd/woody-i386-1.raw>.  I use
   'rsync -B 150000 -av --progress -c
   developer.skolelinux.no::skolelinux/woody-i386-1.raw
   woody-i386-1.raw' to update my copy.

 - Create disk image for qemu: 'dd if=/dev/zero of=disk bs=1M count=1500'

 - Run qemu with 50 MB ram, booting from CD with the disk image as HD:
   'qemu -m 50 -boot d -cdrom woody-i386-1.raw disk'

With this configuration, I am currently installing the standalone
profile.  I do not remember the disk size requirement of the other
profiles.  The disk image need to be adjusted to have room for the
profile installed.