Re: GRUB, CD and extended floppy formats: HOWTO
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 07:22:10PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 05:21:27PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote:
> > You create a tar archive with all the files that you want to put on the
> > virtual disk INCLUDING the ones for the correct version of GRUB. All the
> > remaining stuff is handled by the script which creates an empty file of
> > the correct size, partitions it (in case of HD emulation), put a
> > filesystem on it (only ext2 at the moment, but this is just a limitation
> > of the script), run GRUB with the correct options, that is uses `setup'
> > and the `geometry' function with new options to set the correct geometry.
>
> This sounds as if it was incredible useful also for hard disk images for plex86!
> (Which needs a partition table and everything).
I hope so. Now, even for floppies, I just use the script and dd
everything since virtual disks are more flexible than something else ;)
Cheers,
--
Thierry Laronde <tlaronde@polynum.org>
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