On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 02:26:45PM -0700, Yu Yang wrote:
> The problem with me is that when I use
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=my_filesystem seek=100 count=1 bs=1M
>
> to create my_filesystem, I cannot boot UML with it.
Can you boot a physical machine on an empty disk? That's pretty much
what you're trying to do.
> I always got some error information like what I got in the
> previous email. How can I create a filesystem just like those downloadable
> from sourceforge?
It varies by distro. The coolest way is to actually run the distro
install procedure (by booting from the distro's initrd and installing
into a blank ubd device), but that's tricky and is probably only for
people with too much spare time.
An easier way is to loop-mount the image on the host and install into
it.
Debian has debootstrap (I think), which will do the trick.
I made my first x86_64 filesystem with busybox.
I got tired of busybox, and installed yum on it from the host, and
from there upgraded into FC4.
Jeff
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