Re: Testing an ISO with persistence in VirtualBox OSE
And sorry, I'm using live-build version 2.0.12-2 in Debian GNU/Linux
6.0.3 (squeeze)
On 29/04/2012, Miguel Villanueva Lobato
<miguel.villanueva.lobato@gmail.com> wrote:
> I mean a file with an ext2 file system I have created with:
> $ dd if=/dev/null of=live-rw bs=1GB seek=1 # for a 100MB sized image file
> $/sbin/mkfs.ext2 -F live-rw
>
> Because I was trying it with files instead of partitions.
>
> Anyway, If I tried doing it in your way:
> I boot the VM with the live cd in the CD/DVD device. But, what do you
> mean by 'partition'? Because, in VirtualBox I can create a .VDI disk,
> but how can I make an ext file system on it?
>
> On 29/04/2012, Rui Miguel P. Bernardo <rui.bernardo.pt@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Miguel Villanueva Lobato
>> <miguel.villanueva.lobato@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've tried this creating an ISO image of a directory containing the live
>>> debian system image and other image labeled live-rw (with an ext2 fs),
>>> and
>>> then, using this ISO for the CD/DVD device in VirtualBox, but it
>>> doesn't
>>> work: Vbox cannot find the boot medium.
>>>
>>> I've also tried using two CD/DVD devices: one with the system image and
>>> the
>>> other with the live-rw, but there's no way.
>>>
>>> Can someone help me?
>>>
>>> Tanks,
>>>
>>> Miguel.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> what do you mean by "and other image labeled live-rw (with an ext2 fs)"?
>>
>> It should work booting the virtualbox VM with the live cd, a partition
>> disk labeled live-rw, and adding a boot option "persistent".
>>
>> I'm not using the latest sid version and I know there have been some
>> recent changes about persistence. The debian image is sid? wheezy?
>> squeeze? If the image is not sid the usual way should work.
>>
>
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