Re: [uml-user] Can i increase the hard disk of virtual mashine

2009-10-12 Thread Flavio
2009/10/13 Jonas Meyer : > Three steps. > > 1) dd if=/dev/zero of=root_fs bs=1GB count=0 seek=150 > 2) mkfs.ext3 root_fs > 3) mount -o loop root_fs mount_point/ 4) debootstrap 5) configure the guest system through a chroot (fstab, locales etc.) 6) enjoy Flavio

Re: [uml-user] Can i increase the hard disk of virtual mashine

2009-10-12 Thread Jonas Meyer
Three steps. 1) dd if=/dev/zero of=root_fs bs=1GB count=0 seek=150 2) mkfs.ext3 root_fs 3) mount -o loop root_fs mount_point/ Jonas On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 21:58 +0200, Flavio wrote: > 2009/10/12 Kristian Kirilov : > > OK, I read how to setup custom kernel to UML but I didn't find any howto's > >

Re: [uml-user] Can i increase the hard disk of virtual mashine

2009-10-12 Thread andy baxter
andy baxter wrote: > I need to check which SKAS mode I am running in. > to which the answer is - SKAS 0 But to get SKAS 3 would need a kernel patch on debian stable, so it would be good to know if this is likely to make a difference.

Re: [uml-user] Can i increase the hard disk of virtual mashine

2009-10-12 Thread Flavio
2009/10/12 Kristian Kirilov : > OK, I read how to setup custom kernel to UML but I didn't find any howto's > for making custom file system image. > Can you explain your solution? > Look at the google cache copy of this website: http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:eACPSbxz9gwJ:www.vdd-project.org/

Re: [uml-user] Can i increase the hard disk of virtual mashine

2009-10-12 Thread andy baxter
Flavio wrote: > 2009/10/12 Jonas Meyer : > >> The best method is to shut down the guest, mount the root filesystem on >> the host, make a new larger file system with dd, copy the data over, >> delete the old root_fs, and reboot. Depending on how big a new one you >> want, should 5-20 minutes or

Re: [uml-user] Can i increase the hard disk of virtual mashine

2009-10-12 Thread Jonas Meyer
The best method is to shut down the guest, mount the root filesystem on the host, make a new larger file system with dd, copy the data over, delete the old root_fs, and reboot. Depending on how big a new one you want, should 5-20 minutes or so. You shouldn't have to reinstall, just copy. Jonas

Re: [uml-user] Can i increase the hard disk of virtual mashine

2009-10-12 Thread Flavio
2009/10/12 Jonas Meyer : > The best method is to shut down the guest, mount the root filesystem on > the host, make a new larger file system with dd, copy the data over, > delete the old root_fs, and reboot. Depending on how big a new one you > want, should 5-20 minutes or so. You shouldn't have

Re: [uml-user] Can i increase the hard disk of virtual mashine

2009-10-12 Thread andy baxter
Flavio wrote: > Hi! > I had the same problem and there are a lot of guides in the Internet. > Unfortunately, I didn't find any valid procedure to get filesystem > images resized. > > Finally, I created a new filesystem and installed the distribution > once again inside it. > > I'm using uml with

Re: [uml-user] Can i increase the hard disk of virtual mashine

2009-10-12 Thread Flavio
Hi! I had the same problem and there are a lot of guides in the Internet. Unfortunately, I didn't find any valid procedure to get filesystem images resized. Finally, I created a new filesystem and installed the distribution once again inside it. Flavio 2009/10/12 Kristian Kirilov : > Hello, > >

[uml-user] Can i increase the hard disk of virtual mashine

2009-10-12 Thread Kristian Kirilov
Hello, I'm new in user mode Linux. I have setuped UML with networking sucessfully, fixed network IP address and manual port forwarding. Everything was good until I saw the size of virtual HDD which is only 1GB. So I need more space, what can I do to increase the size of the root partition?? T