On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > (*) > Now to the hoops: > > * I started with the 767/ext3 image from > http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/official/ > * extended to 2 GB by appending /dev/zero > (jffs2 compression gives roughly 2 GB too) > * enlarged the partition to full 2 GB > (using fdisk and ext2resize) Hi, I want to try this with virtualbox. I can't seem to get the disk image size extension working. Can you share the actual commands you used to do this? Thanks! Dave > > * mounted that in a Fedora 10 virtual machine > * copied over the F10 kernel, initrd, and modules > (olpc kernel wanted AMD instructions) > * edited grub.conf to use that kernel > * and appended a root=/dev/sda1 kernel arg > (the fedora kernel wants to use LVM otherwise) > * unmounted > * created new virtual machine > (that disk, 1 CPU, 256 MB RAM, NAT networking) > * booted into that new system > * installed Perl > (for vmware tools installer) > * installed vmware tools > (to get the X driver) > (but none of the kernel modules, would need make/gcc/etc.) > * deleted Perl > (to restore the default sw environment) > * copied the existing xorg-vmware.conf to xorg.conf > (to get 1200x900 resolution w/ 200 dpi) > * booted into Sugar > (looks really nice so scaled down) > * installed activities > (took a long time, maybe it's my DSL) > * tested a bit > * rm -r ~olpc/.sugar > (to remove my personal data) > * should have deleted sshd host keys, too, but didn't > * shut down > * zip > * upload > * ... > * ... > * ... > * still no profit? ;) > > Enjoy. > > And maybe remove some of the obstacles in future releases (a disk > image with headroom and a standard kernel would be simple to do and go > a long way). > > - Bert - > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Dave Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.solutiongrove.com
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