Hopefully this is still of interest to the list, if not I'll move off line next time...
On 12/1/05, Ognjen Bezanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > >huh, this is very interesting. I would love to get the .img file -- > >not exactly sure what a .img file is, but I have used files with this > >extension to start up qemu so I assumethis is some kind of disk > >image... At the least itwould be something to referto as Im building > >this up. > > > > > > > the .img is essentially a disk image, you can read from a disk to a .img > file: > > dd if=/dev/hdx of=/path/to/file.img > > or vice-versa: > > dd if=/path/to/file.img > > Also in linux you can mount the file and use it as you would a normal disk: > > mount -t [filesystem] /path/to/file.img /mount/point -o loop I'm trying to test this out before installing it. I can get the image to boot in qemu thus: qemu -boot c -hda sounderver.img -hdb qemu.img where qemu.img is a bank image produced as per qemu's instructions. however, it doesn't seem to do much and in particular I can't seem to open a vt to check out what's going on... Instead I am stuck at an interesting command prompt with a few lines of text (Welcometothe ESD server... etc). This may be intentional? for the stripped-down serverness of it. Then tried investigating thusly: sudo mount -t ext2 -o loop soundserver.img /mnt/soundserver/ but it won't mount, giving a "wrong fs" error of the kind I've sometimes seen when forgetting to add "-t iso9660" while attempting to mount a cd. so not sure whether I'm doing something wrong, or whether perhaps you use a special fs (reiser?) so anyway, if you get this, let me know if you have any suggestions! thanks, matt > > > Oh, and feel free to contact me if you need help! :) > >
