From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 4 11:22:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEC0337B71B for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 11:22:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f34IMb212390; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 11:22:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 11:22:37 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jason Victor Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A novel idea.... Message-ID: <20010404112237.Y12164@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20010404080416.T12164@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010404180718.16316.qmail@web4307.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010404180718.16316.qmail@web4307.mail.yahoo.com>; from sloppyj123@yahoo.com on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 11:07:18AM -0700 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jason Victor [010404 11:07] wrote: > It sounds like a good idea to me. From what I _think_ > I understand, I can make some kind of FreeBSD boot > floppy, and mount some kind of "virtual partition" > containing FreeBSD that is simply a file on my Windows > partition.... how far off-base am I??? Actually you're right on target. This is what I suggested. Just use picobsd, you'll need to have FreeBSD installed, then you can make your own picoBSD "distro" that contains the tools you'll need to make the "virtual disk in a file" on your windows partition. > If I can do > this some way, what are some steps that a newbie could > follow? Do a full install of FreeBSD. See the picobsd homepage http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ Make your own picobsd with the tools needed for a FreeBSD install as well as vnconfig. Figure out how to do the virtual partitions using msdos files. Then make a script that unpacks the install files from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ into the virtual partition. And then customize your system. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Daemon News Magazine in your snail-mail! http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message