Re: Slightly OT: Building with a VM

2011-05-02 Thread Mike McCarty
me,apporc wrote: Hi Is there a book or someting like which i can refer to for these knowledge about disks , images files and partitions . I use the man pages a lot. I don't know how to mount a partition in a image file with offset .I want to know detailed knowledge about this . I hope you

Re: Slightly OT: Building with a VM

2011-04-25 Thread me,apporc
Hi Is there a book or someting like which i can refer to for these knowledge about disks , images files and partitions . I don't know how to mount a partition in a image file with offset .I want to know detailed knowledge about this . I hope you can give me an advice. Thanks. On Fri, Apr 22, 2011

Re: Slightly OT: Building with a VM

2011-04-25 Thread Neal Murphy
On Tuesday 26 April 2011 00:25:52 me,apporc wrote: Hi Is there a book or someting like which i can refer to for these knowledge about disks , images files and partitions . I don't know how to mount a partition in a image file with offset .I want to know detailed knowledge about this . I hope

Re: Slightly OT: Building with a VM

2011-04-21 Thread Neal Murphy
Bother! Clicked the wrong button! On Thursday 21 April 2011 21:12:12 Neal Murphy wrote: Suppose you have a 100MB disk image file. In parted, you can: You can make a GPT partition table: mklabel gpt mkpart boot ext2 1mb 20mb mkpart swap linux-swap 20mb 30mb mkpart root ext4 30mb 50mb

Re: Slightly OT: Building with a VM

2011-04-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Neal Murphy wrote: Bother! Clicked the wrong button! [nice stuff snipped] I very much appreciate the suggestions for PT editors. Thanks! However, I'd like to get an answer to the question about the offsets within the file to get to the starts of the file systems. Am I missing something, like

Re: Slightly OT: Building with a VM

2011-04-21 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday 22 April 2011 00:34:42 Mike McCarty wrote: Neal Murphy wrote: Bother! Clicked the wrong button! [nice stuff snipped] I very much appreciate the suggestions for PT editors. Thanks! However, I'd like to get an answer to the question about the offsets within the file to get to