On 12/1/05, Ognjen Bezanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] > >and see if you get a partition table. If you do, then the above > >diagnosis is correct. In that case, here's a dirty little perl snippet > >I have used to mount the first partition in a disk image. You will have > >to modify it if you want to specify a different partition. > > > > > ooh thankyou! I knew there must have been a way of doing it! you have > saved me a lot of hassle (e.g. having to manage multiple images for > people). I was worrying about that. I found this so useful I think ill > print it and stick it on my wall... > > (for those that are interested) And the image file I provided has its > root fs on the first partition, so no modification of this script whould > be needed in order to mount it. > > wow, that was way cool. thanks, d. Ognjen, this is a sweet little setup. I will probably give something less compact a whirl first, as I have way more machine at my disposal than this requires -- but it's incredible how tiny you've made this, I'm very impressed and I have a strong urge to drop what I'm doing & start fooling around with the TRULY ancient laptops I have lying around (one 286...).
meanwhile, re qemu: yes, this is an emulator; it's fairly unbelievably cool. To try it out, you can just apt-get install qemu; but it works much better with the third-party kernel module enabled; to use this you have to uninstall the debian qemu package, then download the source for qemu and kqemu (the kernel bits), and make your own package. I forget exactly how I did that, but I think I followed instructions off of the qemu website and then installed the resultant package using checkinstall (so that it is still registered in the packaging system). I recommend it VERY strongly. If nothing else it's good forthat last little bit of windows garbage that you are stuck with because of work or something. Matt
