Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:39:26 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Shane Adams <adamsch1@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Subject: Re: Advice for hacking on ufs/ffs Message-ID: <44C6655E.6080807@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20060725175331.78302.qmail@web31806.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060725175331.78302.qmail@web31806.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On 07/25/06 12:53, Shane Adams wrote: > Thanks for the tip DES! I will probably break down and buy a cheap machine or dust off my old P3 box. I have a PXE card at home too. I want to try qemu as well cause if I get it to work I can tool around on my laptop. > > Eric, I hate to bother you but I didn't get the cheat sheet. Here's what I attempted last night. > > I built qemu from ports > I used dd to create 1G file. > I did mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /bigdrive/bsdfilesystem -u 0 > I downloaded the 20M boot only ISO. > > I ran qemu specifying -cdrom as the 20M iso, and -hda to /bigdrive/bsdfilesystem. > > Qemu started fine, and I proceeded to go through the basic install process, at that point it asked me to toss in the correct CD with the packages to complete the installation (Which I didnt' have the CD handy and it was late so I will try again tonight). > > Anyway - you said you do a make DESTDIR to your mdconfig'd file. Did you mount the file you mdconfiged? If so, does a make installworld install a boot loader as well? I'm not clear on how you used qemu to boot agains that device. Perhaps you did a normal BSD install on it then later mounted it to get your stuff on there? I just resent it to you. I'll probably clean it up, and post it somewhere for anyone who cares at some point. I did it without sysinstall, because I wanted an updated version of the OS from my local checked out copy, which already had changes in it. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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