M.C. Bezemer wrote:
> I don't know whether or not this is the right place for this, but I had > some problems installing hamm on my system. As I do not yet want to drop > my bo system, I decided to try it out on a looped filesystem. I have > recompiled a 2.0.32 kernel with looproot support (patch from linuxhq.com). > Installing bo to a looped filesystem is easy: mount it in tty2 on /target > and press (twice) ESC in dinstall. Now pressing ESC twice in dinstall > doesn't make dinstall re-examine the state of the installation. > Executing a shell and then returning to dinstall seems to have the same > effect, but then dinstall still doesn't see the looped fs on /target (bo > installation had no problem with that). > I then run losetup /dev/loop1 /hda6/loopfs.lin/hammloop.img, hoping > dinstall might see the /dev/loop1 alongside with /dev/hda1,2,5,6 and 7 > devices... It didn't. > At last I got it installed, but not quite easy: first I tried to remove > /dev/hda7 and ln /dev/loop1 /dev/hda7, but then dinstall tried to mount > /dev/hda7 as a MSDOS filesystem (/dev/hda7 is an ext.DOS partition > allright, but now /dev/hda7 was hardlinked to /dev/loop1). It seems that > dinstall looks at the partition info of the hard disk to determine the > type of the partition. As I do have an ext2 filesystem /dev/hda5, I chose > that one to mount as a previously initialized partition, the executed a > shell, unmounted /dev/hda5, removed /dev/hda5 and hardlinked it to > /dev/loop1 and mounted it again. Exiting the shell resulted (finally) in > being able to copy and install all the rest of the stuff. > > Maybe someone can do something about it, so that installing to anything > mounted on /target should be possible, like in bo. > > Greetings, > Maarten Bezemer. > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
