[Peeweelinux] how to creat a standalone image file on my HD

[Leif Steinhour]

I could be wrong about this, but I think there's a practical difficulty 
associated with doing that. It's my understanding that the boot image has 
hard coded in it the specific spot on the partition table where the root 
image lives, and so you'd have to redo that for each new device. Otherwise 
we wouldn't need lilo at all. By forcing you to install to an actual 
device, pee wee assures itself that all of the relevant information is 
available to it during the install. There may be a way to set up a 
loopback device with a number of virtual cylinders, heads, etc., 
concurrent with your freind's harware, I haven't explored this option.


On 2003.04.03 02:32 Yuval Yohai wrote:
> that's a nice idea. I even got a zip drive already on my comp. Yet it
> could be nice to have it as an option called, let's say, 'compressed
> image with bootloadre to a file'.
> 
> Thanks,
> Yuval
> 
> --- vwbug19 <vwbug19@worldnetoh.com> wrote:
> > try the  ide internal zipdrive it holds up to 100mb
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Yuval Yohai" <yuval_yohai@yahoo.com>
> > To: <peeweelinux@adis.on.ca>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 1:43 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Peeweelinux] how to creat a standalone image file on
> > my HD
> >
> >
> > > Thanks, but that I know, the problem I need an image larger that
> > a
> > > floppy size.
> > >
> > > Yuval
> > >
> > > --- Troy Engel <tengel@fluid.com> wrote:
> > > > Do it to an actual floppy, then use 'dd' to pull it off the
> > floppy
> > > > to a
> > > > file. Something like 'dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/var/tmp/floppy.img
> > > > bs=2048'
> > > > should do the trick (check that for errors first).
> > > >
> > > > -te
> > > >
> > > > Yuval Yohai wrote:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm trying to create an floppy image file on my HD and then
> > send
> > > > it
> > > > > to a friend. But I am not able to it since the only options i
> > see
> > > > in
> > > > > the pwlconfig is doing it into a partition or a device. I
> > tried
> > > > to
> > > > > attach a loop device with no luck.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any suggestions?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Yuval
> > > > >
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