On Friday 11 March 2005 04:18 pm, Oliver Baltz wrote: > Hi Rob, > > > Is it write-intensive, read-intensive, combination of both, or either > > one? > > I think it is a combination of both: When installing just one single > debian-package the UML often freezes :-( > > Is there an alternative to UBD? > > Oliver
Just for testing purposes, you could try hostfs and then loopback mount your block device. I boot UML like this all the time, to borrow the parent's filesystem. (It has a lot of downsides, and is slower than ubd, but it requires absolutely no setup): ./linux rootfstype=hostfs rootflags=/ rw init=/bin/sh mem=64M Note that this works under an Xterm because you own /dev/console, but if you're running it from the console you either need to chown/chmod /dev/console or you need to be root. I have a script that gets around that, lemme dig it up... Attached. You don't need anything _nearly_ that complicated, but I just thought I'd let you know what kind of abuse you can do with hostfs... :) Rob
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