I have tested, successfully, the installation of SL 7 alpha DVD to a harddisk image via qemu (under SL 6.5 x86_64 on an HP Pavilion g6 laptop). To test the build of AMD proprietary graphics driver however requires the detection of the gpu hardware, hence the installation onto a physical hard disk, which is something I prefer not to do until later. For this purpose, one approach is to build a bootable iso out of the virtual harddisk image from qemu - some info on this could be found in the ubuntu community but so far nothing (that I could find) for rhel systems - is this doable? Perhaps there may be other approaches for testing the build without the installation to the hard disk.
PS - One related question: how could the squashfs image file in the LiveOS directory in SL-7-x86_64-DVD.iso be accessed? An attempt to mount the img file fails with an error of 'unknown filesystem type', nor could the file be unsquashed with 'unsquashfs'. It seems reasonable to think the content of the squashfs.img could be accessible. Thanks in advance. Boryeu Mao
