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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] the perpetual disk partition problem
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:23:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e8583c279609cd80dc5afca74df5086d@quintile.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df10707170852g21b535e9o1f60133213177bc1@mail.gmail.com>

> So, question, what are you folks doing to partition disks nowadays
> when 9load has not loaded your kernel? I'm curious.

You could just boot the live CDROM to install onto a physical disk
and then boot your kernel under lguest and point it at this, rather than
a virtual disk in a linux file. I suspose you could even use Linux dd to copy
this disk to a linux file and then use that.

-Steve


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-17 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-17 15:52 ron minnich
2007-07-17 16:05 ` erik quanstrom
2007-07-17 16:06 ` erik quanstrom
2007-07-17 16:23 ` Steve Simon [this message]
2007-07-17 16:29   ` ron minnich
2007-07-17 16:49     ` erik quanstrom
2007-07-17 17:08       ` ron minnich
2007-07-17 17:41         ` erik quanstrom
2007-07-17 19:08         ` Uriel

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