30.11.2010 00:34, Per Sjoholm пишет: > On 2010-11-29 22:52, Andrew wrote: >> 29.11.2010 23:32, Per Sjoholm пишет: >>> Hi >>> I been trying to make a diskimage with a fat32 partition for use with >>> virtualbox or qemu. >>> >>> Bering-uClibc_4.0-beta1_i486_syslinux_vga.tar.gz and installation >>> instruction for usb/CF >>> assumes a partition. >>> >>> My idee was to configure leaf using a virtual environment and then write >>> the image to a media. >>> >>> >>> Any suggestion on how create a diskimage and a best practice for using qemu >>> or virtualbox? >>> >>> I can update the wiki(need permission) >>> >>> /Per >> LEAF has syslinux, fdisk and mkfs.vfat; so you may boot from CD image, >> load required packages (hdsupp, possible something else), and create >> partition& make it bootable; then - extract here tarball. >> But IMHO it'll be better not to write full image, it'll be better to >> make system (syslinux) partition and place here all distro by packages. >> > Yes, I have done it with cdrom/iso image and floppy. > On floppy you have the device and no partition. > We are leaving floppies. > > On usb and hd/CF-card you want to use partitions. > One for system and for one configuration, possible more depending on usage. > It's enough to have 1 partition for both packages and config. > With > syslinux bering.img > The configuration in tarball assumes /dev/sda1 (a vfat partition). > syslinux on diskimage with no partition will boot. > But LINUXRC does not find the configurations(leaf.cfg) as no /dev/sda1. > What HDD devices you saw in /dev? > Either some one prepare a empty image (for download) with a partition and > instruktion on how to mount and copy > files(tarball) to it. > Or better(IMHO) a instruction for creating image with partitions from > scratch, mounting partitions and copy tarball. > > > /Per It's quite easy: make by fdisk 1st partition, change type to FAT32, make it active and write changes, then - mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1, then - syslinux -i /dev/sda1 (possible with force key -f), then - mount it and extract tarball here.
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