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diff --git a/hurd/running/gnu/create_an_image.mdwn b/hurd/running/gnu/create_an_image.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 98af99eb..00000000 --- a/hurd/running/gnu/create_an_image.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,98 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2012 Free Software Foundation, -Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -Creating a bootable qemu image from a root filesystem and bootloader - -1. Create a hard disk image - - qemu-img create -f qcow <imagename.img> <size>G - -2. Use a live CD (better to have a lighter OS like system rescue CD to make the - process faster) and the image created to boot. - - qemu -m 512 -cdrom /dev/cdrom -drive cache=writeback,index=0,media=disk,file=<imagename.img> -boot d - -3. Once system is booted use a partition editing tool (like fdisk, cfdisk, - parted, gparted, qtparted ...) to partition the image. - - cfdisk - - create the necessary partitions (root and swap partitions boot, home ... if - required) - -4. Create a file system for the root partition - - mke2fs /dev/hda1 - -5. Mount the partition - - mkdir disk - mount /dev/hda1 disk - -6. Copy the file system from the host machine to the mounted directory (use a - compressed file system to make the copying faster) - - Grab the GNU snapshot from ams' site - <http://www.update.uu.se/~ams/home/slask/GNU/> - - scp <user>@<host>:<path to the compressed file system> disk - -7. Uncompress the files - - cd disk - tar -jxvf <compressed filesystem> - -8. Unmount the mounted partition - - cd .. - umount disk - -9. power off the guest OS. - - poweroff - -10. To make the file system bootable download a grub floppy image - - <http://hurd.in/pub/Hurd/HurdOnVMware/grub.img> - -11. Run qemu to boot into your brand new system - - qemu -m 512 -drive cache=writeback,index=0,media=disk,file=<hard disk image.img> -fda grub.img -boot a - -Happy Hacking !! - - -Make your new system boot from the hard disk - -1. Mount your grub image - - mkdir floppy - mount -t ext2 -o loop grub.img floppy - -2. Use previous steps 2 and 5 to boot from a liveCD and mount the partition - - cd disk/boot - scp -r <user>@<host>:<path to mounted floppy image directory>/boot/grub - -3. Poweroff the guest - - poweroff - -4. Boot new system using floppy image previous step 11 - - use install to hard disk option if you used the above grub image - - or go to grub command line and type - - root (hd0,0) - setup (hd0) - - Now you have a bootable system image. Enjoy Maadi !! |