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To: K S Sreeram <sreeram@tachyontech.net>
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Subject: Re: VMWare plain disk 
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From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
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In message <01052117231608.00615@ks.tachyon.tech>, K S Sreeram writes:
>It doesnt work.. 
>
>i created the plain disk using the configuration editor in vmware. I created 
>a 3GB plain disk, and vmware created 2 files (win981.dat and win982.dat), 
>each being 1.5GB. I guest its not working because the partitions in the disk 
>are not at the beginning of the file.

Hmm, I guess this may be because VMware is limited by the Linux
file size limits - you just created one 3GB partition on the vmware
disk, right? I certainly got this to work fine with a 2Gb plain
VMware disk, but VMWare produced only one file then.

BTW, I think '-s labels' bit may have been wrong in the previous
commands. The commands should probably have been

	(cd /dev; sh MAKEDEV vn0)
	vnconfig -e /dev/vn0 /path/to/plain/disk
	mkdir /vmdisk
	mount -t msdos /dev/vn0s1 /vmdisk

	...

	umount /vmdisk
	vnconfig -u /dev/vn0

Ian

(PS when something doesn't work, please try to post exactly what
you typed and exact error messages; this will usually result in
responses that are more relevant and correct).

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