Excellent. Thanks guys. I'll give these a shot. Joel
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Will Beazley <[email protected]>wrote: > Consider the following: > > I believe you can install virtual box with its additions with > ubuntu/solaris/opensolaris without being root or on a laptop. Copy it > through your virtual box shared directory. > > Loop mount the image make you changes copy it back through the shared dir. > > Might work. > > > Steve Reinhardt wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 8:24 PM, nathan binkert <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > > I seem to recall reading in the mailing list about how to > > create and > > > modify disk images without having sudo or root access on a > > machine. I have > > > searched through the archives, and I can't find anything about > > it. Is there > > > a way to do this? > > > > Since nobody has responded, I will. > > > > You can create a disk image without root access using dd to create a > > file and run fdisk on that file. > > > > As for editing it, you can't mount it if you're not root. Maybe some > > people suggested using the simulator itself or using a virtual > > machine. > > > > > > If you can get a one-time assist from someone who is root, you could > > get them to put a line in /etc/fstab with the 'user' line set, maybe > > pointing to a symlink that you can point at the image you actually > > want to mount... I'm not positive this would work, but it's a thought. > > > > Steve > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > m5-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users > > _______________________________________________ > m5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users > -- Joel Hestness PhD Student, Computer Architecture Dept. of Computer Science, University of Texas - Austin http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~hestness
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