On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 11:48:40AM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
Luke> that loopback filesystems cannot be presented as block devices
Luke> by the linux kernel (with no involvement of xen) seems to be a
Luke> curious omission.
But they can! But a loopback device can't be partitioned. So do it
one partition at a time.
ian and mark kindly responded pointing out some programs which
make that possible.
i liked the LVM one best.
You'll probably only have a few real filesystems on the disk image
anyway.
hi peter, thank you for responding.
see http://hands.com/d-i, searching for "xen0".
the key is to be able to test-run debian installations in
a xen guest domain (with absolute minimal changes to the
packages or the debian boot installs).
and of course a debian install expects to see a hard drive, which it
expects to be able to partition - so it is given one.
l.
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