On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 12:10 -0700, JD wrote:
> Is there a way to transfer the bootable filesystem
> image in the VDI file to a hard drive partition so
> that one can boot directly that drive?
> I mean if the VDI is a linux bootable image under
> vbox, is it possible to extract the linux image
> itself and put it on a drive and boot linux from
> that drive directly?

In the worst case (and it might not even be the worst case) you could
simply mount both the vdi image and the raw disk partition inside a
running vbox guest (i.e. linux) and simply dd from the vdi mounted image
to the partition mounted one.

No fuss, no muss.

b.




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