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Posted: Mar. 29 2007,21:02 QUOTE
Hi there,

I started off using DSL under QEMU & Windows & all works fine with a qemu virtual disk, but is there any way of making this disk available when booting direct from the USB drive?

Still new to Linux, so please don't assume any knowledge when replying.

Thanks,

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Posted: Mar. 29 2007,23:21 QUOTE
I think you can achieve this by booting with the 'qemu' cheatcode
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Posted: Mar. 30 2007,01:11 QUOTE
I tried that but it doesn't seem to work.  I get a whole load of errors when & try & boot about sread failing?  If I use dsl toram I can at least get to xwindows, but with no restore from my qemu backups.

Any ideas what this error means?

(and is there any way of viewing these errors in a log file, as they fly off the screen so fast I can't read any bar the last few?)

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Posted: Mar. 31 2007,22:49 QUOTE
I think the qemu bootcode previously worked with the 'built-in' harddisk in dsl-embedded.zip (originally in .../qemu/harddisk)

Perhaps you could use syslogd - but I'm not sure if those errors will be in there or not.
You could read it on the screen by pressing scroll lock to pause the screen, then use pgup pgdown to navigate.
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Posted: April 01 2007,06:32 QUOTE
This capability is explained in the readme.txt file.

To access and share your Qemu virtual drive you need to boot natively with the following:

boot: dsl qemu frugal restore=harddisk mydsl=harddisk/mydsl

Once you have your virtual qemu drive correctly setup and shared then just add:

 frugal qemu restore=harddisk mydsl=harddisk/mydsl

to the append section of /cdrom/syslinux.cfg

Then you will have a seamlessly shared virtual drive whether booting via dsl-vhd.bat in Qemu or natively from the usb pendrive.
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