On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 07:22:10PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > 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).
I hope so. Now, even for floppies, I just use the script and dd everything since virtual disks are more flexible than something else ;) Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Site Debian Francophone (aka SDF) : http://www.debian-france.org/
