[haiku-development] Re: R1a4: just Anyboot and VMDK?
- From: Pete Goodeve <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:33:22 -0700
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:12:03PM +0200, Ingo Weinhold wrote:
>
> 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
I found the source in my recently cloned git tree, and didn't have much
trouble compiling it. (Just used make with appropriate include paths.)
Under 16 kB, and it seems to work just fine! Was able to 'register'
an anyboot image, mount it and examine it, then unmount it and
unregister it.
As Matt says, Neat! Thanks.
-- Pete --
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