On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 06:10:15PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 06:34:46PM +0100, "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@kemisten.nu> was heard to say: > > > And how do you get things into the disk image? Last I checked, > > > this required either complex hackery to mount it as a block device, > > > or burning a CD-ROM of the data. > > If you would have read the mailing list archives (this applies to everyone) > > then you would have know that I and including someone else (forgot the name > > of that person) have posted a small guide [1] on the subject, and there is > > no "complex hackery" involved. As all recent distributions of GNU/Linux > > can mount loop back devices. > > I have DONE it (maybe even using the above as a guide), and you have to > futz around with offsets into block images. It's ugly and error-prone. It is, but you only have to do it once when you've created the partition inside the image. It's not that hard to do it only once. > Furthermore, if you want to download any additional files (for > instance, packages other than base), you have to do it by hand in Linux, > then copy them into the loop-mounted partition. (remember, btw, that > you can't safely mount it from inside plex86 and Linux at the same time, > so you have to shut the virtual machine down to do this) If you make the partition read-only in plex86 you can safely copy to it. > Hopefully plex86 will import the bochs code once it's a little more > mature. Yes, plex86 and bochs will share this kind of code in the future as far as I have understand it. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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