Dear folks, I got a personal mail that my USB images do not fit into 1GB and 2G sticks.
Obviously I got this wrong. 10^3 != 2^10 I have images of 2*1024^3 whereas USB sticks are short by roughly 80 MB. I found a very interesting way of tackling this issue. Hence this mail. Once again qemu comes to rescue. I created a qemu filestore of the correct size. $ qemu-img create usb-lite.bin.new 1000000 Then I booted both images with qemu like this # qemu -hda usb-lite.bin -hdb usb-lite.bin.new And from inside qemu I newfs(8)ed the new disk like this. # fdisk -iy wd1 # disklabel -E wd1 # newfs wd1 Then I transferred the entire contents with tar. # mount /dev/wd1a /mnt # cd /mnt # mount /dev/wd0a / # tar zcXpf - / | tar zxpf - (I should have used dump(8), restore(8) but they don't work under qemu) Once this finishes, install the bootloaders. # pwd /mnt # cp usr/mdec/b* . # ./usr/mdec/installboot -v boot biosboot wd1 # shutdown -hp now Cool eh? -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech web: http://gayatri-hitech.com SpamCheetah Spam filter: http://spam-cheetah.com
