Gentoo stage 3 install CDs are fairly minimal but reliable live CDs. I've heard they work well.
Gabe Quoting Bob Nagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > I have been using some virtual machine environments, but I have not > found what I need, usually the only disk images that I found are with > complete linux environments that includes applications and user > interface. So Clint or anyone can you tell me where I can get a disk > image with a simple linux on it without user interface and that > stuff?. thanks so much. > > 2008/11/13 Eduardo Olmedo Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello, > > > > I have installed bochs and now I have dllinux running and it using as > > hard disk a file called hd10meg.img, the kernel is 1.3.89. So the > > procedure that I should is: add my binary to the hd10meg.img and after > > move the img to the simulator. Where should I put the binary in the > > img? and Should I use another Linux with a 2.5 kernel?. Sorry for > > bother you with this simple questions, but my Linux experience is not > > very high. Thank you. > > > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Clint Smullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> It is much easier to mount the existing disk image, than to make a new > >> one, unless you are adding an addition disk to the configuration. > >> After you have done the mount command (which you may have to prefix > >> with sudo, depending on your flavor of Linux), you then need to copy > >> the files to the mount point, verify the permissions and ownership (I > >> make all the files I copy onto the disk have root ownership and > >> group), and then umount it with (sudo) umount /mount/point. > >> > >> You will still need vmlinux, as that is loaded separately from the > >> disk image. > >> > >> - Clint > >> > >> On Nov 12, 2008, at 6:18 PM, Bob Nagel wrote: > >> > >>> Thanks for your answer Clint, I know how to move the files, so the > >>> thing that I should do is: > >>> > >>> - Follow the steps from here Using linux-dist to Create Disk Images > >>> and Kernels for M5 to create my disk image > >>> - Add the binaries using this commnad /bin/mount -o loop,offset=32256 > >>> /z/foo.img /mount/point > >>> - Submit the image and point the configuration py file to the image > >>> file > >>> > >>> To run the simulation do I still need to install the vmlinux in the > >>> machine that is running the simulation?. Thank you so much for your > >>> help. > >>> > >>> 2008/11/12 Clint Smullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>> > >>>> If you install Linux into a virtual machine (Bochs, VirtualPC, > >>>> VMWare, etc.), you will have root privilege and will be able to > >>>> mount the disk image within the virtual machine to make changes > >>>> (albeit using sudo mount ...). I move the disk images around using > >>>> scp, which performs file transfers through a SSH session. If you > >>>> have SSH access to the server that M5 is running on, then this is > >>>> the simplest way of getting it working. If you happen to have a > >>>> real Linux machine which you have root privilege on, you can do the > >>>> same procedure to get the files moved. Other methods for copying > >>>> the files would be FTP, SMB, or any other method that you normally > >>>> use for copying files onto and off of that machines access. > >>>> - Clint > >>>> > >>>> On Nov 12, 2008, at 5:20 PM, Bob Nagel wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Hi Ali thanks for your answer, I do not know what you mean. Are you > >>>> saying that I should create the Disk Image in another machine in > >>>> which I have root privileges? and after how do I submit that disk > >>>> image to the machine in which I have m5 installed?, I should run > >>>> the simulation in that machine because it is much faster than mine. > >>>> Thank you. > >>>> > >>>> 2008/11/12 Ali Saidi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>> > >>>>> No, you don't need to have root privileges on the machine that > >>>>> you're > >>>>> running M5 on, but you do need them on some system because the mount > >>>>> requires root privileges. You could run linux inside a VM or with a > >>>>> emulator such as Bochs for this purpose. > >>>>> > >>>>> Ali > >>>>> > >>>>> On Nov 12, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Bob Nagel wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> Hello, > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I want to run some of my own tests in FS mode, and I have seen > >>>>>> here > http://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Using_linux-dist_to_Create_Disk_Images_and_Kernels_for_M5 > >>>>>> , that to create the disk image and to add files to it I need to > >>>>>> have root privileges. Is there any way to avoid this?, I am able > >>>>>> to > >>>>>> run the benchmarks that comes with the installation of FS, is there > >>>>>> any way to add my binaries to that disk image. 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