saving space

Forum: DSL Embedded
Topic: saving space
started by: krazynesphreak

Posted by krazynesphreak on Dec. 03 2004,04:09

first i have to say dsl embedded it really cool. right know i can boot on my usb thumb drive, using this ((http://damnsmalllinux.org/static/act-ST/f-17/t-3061)) so my version of dsl is not really install just sitting there. i would like to be able to use qemu to boot my thumb drive just like i do when i boot the computer. is there a new ".bat" file i can make to do this will and it so how? dose this make sines
thanks

Posted by krazynesphreak on Dec. 03 2004,04:31

what i have so far is,

REM Start qemu on windows.
@ECHO OFF

START qemu.exe -L . -m 128 -fda boot-0.8.0.img -enable-audio -localtime

CLS
EXIT

i can boot from the floppy image know, is there a to add the usb or a drive to it (sda1)
thanks

Posted by krazynesphreak on Dec. 03 2004,04:57

one of my friends say my post dose not make sines, so what i want to do is be able to boot from a physical drive not an image or be a to boot the file "knoppix" using the floppy image.
thanks

Posted by AwPhuch on Dec. 03 2004,17:07

Yes, you can..

You have to create a "qemu drive" or a large file that DSL can be "installed" to

Either you can download the development package from < http://awphuch2000.dyndns.org:1079/linux....dsl-dev >
and create a "drive" then modify your dsl-windows.bat file to include that file as the drive, then do an install (my development zip is from the 0.6.0 version)

Is this closer to what you were requesting??

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by krazynesphreak on Dec. 03 2004,21:54

yes/no i going to see if i can find and floppy image that will lit me just run and iso image that way i can boot for it and emulate it
thanks

Posted by krazynesphreak on Dec. 04 2004,05:27

AwPhuch, i`m sorry that is what i want to do :P, but how would i? i try doing the hostdrive (floppy) and i type in the bat "/dev/fd0" and i can`t get it to work so if i can`t do the floppy then how can i even do the sda drive (thunb drive) when it dose not even have usb suppost to beginnig.
thanks
ryan

Posted by krazynesphreak on Dec. 04 2004,07:19

ok i really just using this board for notes i guess :P. if u want to help out thats cool. but i find how to boot from the host floppy in windows u type "A:" as the file name not "/dev/fd0". all of the documentation is for run in linux not windows. dose any one know hot to boot a hd (G:) with the emulator?
thanks

Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 05 2004,00:05

There are two ways that i know of:

1) Download the latest MSWindows "Nightly Build" of Qemu and use the QEMU menu utility to boot from HD.

2) Read the QEMU online manual from the website that contains the explanation of the command line switches including the one that lets you boot from a virtual hard drive.

Posted by krazynesphreak on Dec. 05 2004,01:01

i can't? as far as the 2nd idea u posted, all of the doc(s) are for linux not even the windows port has it, it has the linux doc. and as far as ur 1st idea i tried it as well (don't work)
thanks

p.s. i would also like to do this for linux and maybe for mac (i don`t know if mac can read a fat partitions or not.)