Emulating 8.2-767

[Dave Bauer]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

>
> (*)
> Now to the hoops:
>
> * I started with the 767/ext3 image from
>   http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/official/
> * extended to 2 GB by appending /dev/zero
>   (jffs2 compression gives roughly 2 GB too)
> * enlarged the partition to full 2 GB
>   (using fdisk and ext2resize)


Hi, I want to try this with virtualbox. I can't seem to get the disk image
size extension working.
Can you share the actual commands you used to do this?

Thanks!
Dave


>
> * mounted that in a Fedora 10 virtual machine
> * copied over the F10 kernel, initrd, and modules
>   (olpc kernel wanted AMD instructions)
> * edited grub.conf to use that kernel
> * and appended a root=/dev/sda1 kernel arg
>   (the fedora kernel wants to use LVM otherwise)
> * unmounted
> * created new virtual machine
>   (that disk, 1 CPU, 256 MB RAM, NAT networking)
> * booted into that new system
> * installed Perl
>   (for vmware tools installer)
> * installed vmware tools
>   (to get the X driver)
>   (but none of the kernel modules, would need make/gcc/etc.)
> * deleted Perl
>   (to restore the default sw environment)
> * copied the existing xorg-vmware.conf to xorg.conf
>   (to get 1200x900 resolution w/ 200 dpi)
> * booted into Sugar
>   (looks really nice so scaled down)
> * installed activities
>   (took a long time, maybe it's my DSL)
> * tested a bit
> * rm -r ~olpc/.sugar
>   (to remove my personal data)
> * should have deleted sshd host keys, too, but didn't
> * shut down
> * zip
> * upload
> * ...
> * ...
> * ...
> * still no profit? ;)
>
> Enjoy.
>
> And maybe remove some of the obstacles in future releases (a disk
> image with headroom and a standard kernel would be simple to do and go
> a long way).
>
> - Bert -
>
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Dave Bauer
dave at solutiongrove.com
http://www.solutiongrove.com
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