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Posted: May 25 2005,21:25 QUOTE
Thanks man i just have a few questions... What is Dsl-embedded and what is qemu?
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Posted: May 26 2005,07:02 QUOTE
Hi again!

Dsl-embedded is a version of DSL that can run inside windows and linux (embedded) and also direcly from the usb-drive. Qemu is the emulator that makes this possible. Inside the qemu folder there is a virtual hd that is used when this version of DSL is running inside another OS. This virtual drive is by default 60 MB and can also be mounted running "just" DSL and not embedded. The size of this virtual hd can be changed according to your special needs.

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Posted: May 26 2005,07:46 QUOTE
Hello again!

It came to my mind that you might want to change the size of the virtual hd in qemu which is quite easy. I have made a HOWTO from posts of others in this forum for my personal reference and just in case you would like to do the above here it comes:

HOWTO make a new virtual HD in DSL-embedded


Boot from DSL-embedded on a usb-drive

Make the new virtual hd in “Xshells -> Root Access”

#mount -rw /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1

#dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/hda1/harddisk bs=1024 count=160000
(This will create a 160 MB virtual drive; that's what I use)

#mke2fs /mnt/hda1/harddisk
(Just ignore any warning and proceed)


Copying over files to the new hd

#mount /mnt/hdb

#mount /mnt/hda1/harddisk /mnt/test -o loop

#cp /mnt/hdb/backup.tar.gz /mnt/test

#umount /mnt/hdb

#umount /mnt/test

This is the way I do now. There are several other variants but this works for me.

Have fun,
meo

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