[Peeweelinux] how to creat a standalone image file on my HD
Yuval Yohai
[email protected]
Thu, 3 Apr 2003 12:39:26 -0800 (PST)
That is vary interesting and gives me some vary important points to
think about.
That means I will have to install lilo on my friend's machine
manually and then add the root filesystem. Doesn't it?
My other option looks like using syslinux somehow. (i think !??)
Thanks,
Yuval
--- Leif Steinhour <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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 <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > try the ide internal zipdrive it holds up to 100mb
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Yuval Yohai" <[email protected]>
> > > To: <[email protected]>
> > > 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 <[email protected]> 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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