On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 05:21:27PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote:
> You create a tar archive with all the files that you want to put on the
> virtual disk INCLUDING the ones for the correct version of GRUB. All the
> remaining stuff is handled by the script which creates an empty file of
> the correct size, partitions it (in case of HD emulation), put a
> filesystem on it (only ext2 at the moment, but this is just a limitation
> of the script), run GRUB with the correct options, that is uses `setup'
> and the `geometry' function with new options to set the correct geometry.

This sounds as if it was incredible useful also for hard disk images for plex86!
(Which needs a partition table and everything).

Thanks,
Marcus

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