On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Paul de Weerd wrote:
> [snip] You might want to check out chapter 9 of the very nice FAQ
> OpenBSD has, find it on http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq9.html ... [snip]
Thanks. It's useful, but neither ch 9 nor ch 14 explicitly show an
OpenBSD analog to this from the other system:
sudo mount -o loop debian.dmg debdir;
> How is the debian.img formatted ?
Ext3. Here is the exact sequence. Only the last line, which provides the
content, is important as I am trying to migrate a few things to sysjail.
dd if=/dev/zero of=debian.dmg bs=512k count=500; #
mkfs.ext3 debian.dmg;
mkdir debdir;
sudo mount -o loop debian.dmg debdir;
sudo debootstrap etch debdir http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/;
> Was it originally partitioned ?
No. I am all thumbs with fdisk. (Can follow recipes, though)
How essential is partitioning in this case?
For my part, it's probably not so important how or where the disk image is
made, only that I would prefer a disk image that can be mounted and used
on OpenBSD, Debian || Ubuntu and OS X.
It is, however, intended primarily for use in sysjail on OpenBSD.
> Note that the linux partitions (stored in MBR and so on) are different
> from the OpenBSD partitions (stored in a disklabel, see the manpage to
> the program of the same name) [snip]
Regards,
-Lars
PS. disklabel and fdisk output below
disklabel svnd0
# /dev/rsvnd0c:
type: SCSI
disk: vnd device
label: fictitious
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 100
tracks/cylinder: 1
sectors/cylinder: 100
cylinders: 5120
total sectors: 512000
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0 # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds
drivedata: 0
16 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
c: 512000 0 unused 0 0 # Cyl 0 -
5119
============
disk svnd0
fdisk: sysctl(machdep.bios.diskinfo): Device not configured
Disk: svnd0 geometry: 5120/1/100 [512000 Sectors]
Offset: 0 Signature: 0x0
Starting Ending LBA Info:
#: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
0: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
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