[haiku-development] Re: R1a4: just Anyboot and VMDK?
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:12:03 +0200
On 2012-08-20 at 00:31:32 [+0200], Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Aug 19, 2012 6:24 PM, "Ingo Weinhold" <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > luroh wrote:
> > > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Pete Goodeve
> > > <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > What about Raw Image? I hope that's going to be kept around
> > > > as it's often the most convenient form for me. It's the only one
> > > > (that I know) that I can mount as a filesystem, and use that to
> > > > install on another partition without going through a USB-stick or CD.
> > >
> > > For an advanced use case like that, it is possible to extract a raw
> > > image from an anyboot image:
> > >
> > > dd if=haiku-anyboot.image of=haiku.image bs=1M skip=$(expr $(od -j 454
> > > -N 4 -i -A n haiku-anyboot.image) / 2048)
> > > dd if=/dev/zero of=haiku.image bs=1 seek=506 count=4 conv=notrunc
> >
> > As an alternative: There is the tool "diskimage" in our repository
> (though not on the image by default) which allows to register a file as
> disk. The contained partitioning system will then be recognized and
> contained file systems can be mounted as usual (e.g. via Tracker).
>
> Neat! Is there any reason to not add diskimage to HaikuImage?
I'm not aware of any other than that it takes space (not much). I haven't
used it since I wrote it, so it should be checked whether it still works
properly before adding it.
CU, Ingo
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