From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: "Steve Simon" Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:23:19 +0100 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] the perpetual disk partition problem In-Reply-To: <13426df10707170852g21b535e9o1f60133213177bc1@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 956f818a-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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