On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:28:34AM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 05:22:09PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen@dekkers.cx> was heard to say: > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 08:27:26AM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > OTOH, Bochs and Plex86 don't support network cards yet (although I > > > hear that bochs will soon), which makes installation a bit of a > > > nuisance. > > > > You can just install things in the disk image. Also bochs and plex86 > > give you the freedom to add everything you like, network cards and > > more. > > 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. Just settrans /dir /hurd/ext2fs -T typed part:1:file:<filename> Oh, wait you want it on GNU/Linux. You need some hackery for that. You need to find out the offset of the ext2 partition. Then you can make the following scripts to make it a bit easier to mount/umount. You need the Linux loop module for that (Yeah they don't have it by default!). mount: losetup -o <offset> /dev/loop0 /directory mount /dev/loop0 /directory umount: umount /dev/loop0 losetup -d /dev/loop0 Nice example to show why the Hurd rocks. :-) > I should point out that I don't use VMWare either -- maybe if I had > enough of a need for this I'd have time to spare to "add everything I > like", but as it is I'm just waiting for the next bochs release (traffic > on the mailing list indicates that an ethernet device exists in CVS) I think an old second-hand machine is much better than VMWare. I have some interest in plex86, but my time is limited. 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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