qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -hda /path/to/your/image -boot d

On Wednesday 05 July 2006 16:19, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-07 at 17:12 -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> > A person who is in your position (frustrated for lack of documentation)
> > is actually the most qualified person to write documentation.  Feel free
> > to ask any questions you have on this list.
>
> I would be happy to contribute a section. First I need to learn how qemu
> works though. Just the basics. On another list someone told me that the
> way qemu works is by first creating a blank image, then booting a CD
> from the virtual machine and installing.
>
> At this point I know how to make a blank image, and I know how to boot a
> CD:
>
> qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom
>
> Now I need to figure out how to put these together so that if this CD
> can install an operating system, qemu will know to use the blank image I
> made (call it c.img) as a hard drive for its virtual machine.
>
> Could someone tell me how to do that?
>
> I'll be happy to write an intro tutorial for new users with the
> knowledge I gain.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.


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