[LB-XO-LiveCD] [IAEP] journal in ubuntu

[Edward Cherlin]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 6:11 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>
> On 23.12.2008, at 03:26, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de
>>> > wrote:
>>>> On 22.12.2008, at 23:24, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> On 22.12.2008, at 22:20, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>>>>>>> or
>>>>>>> workaround anywhere.
>>
>>>>>> The workaround is to substitute another kernel to the XO disk
>>>>>> image:
>>>
>>>>> http://croquetweak.blogspot.com/2008/12/emulating-latest-stable-olpc-xo.html
>>>
>>> Do you mean http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/VMWare-8.2-767-bf.zip? The
>>> image file is Virtual Disk-flat.vmdk, right?
>>>
>>>> To use it in Qemu you
>>>> would have to change the xorg config to use the vesa driver, not the
>>>> vmware one.
>>>
>>> How? Oh, I see the first step. qemu-img for converting formats. Let's
>>> get all this into the Wiki, shall we?
>>
>> OK, I made it into a qcow2 file, which boots to the command line and
>> stops, and has too big a window. I assume that there are a few further
>> steps missing in the conversion.
>
>
> Don't know.  Alternatively someone could redo the steps I outlined
> using Qemu rather than VMWare.
>
> - Bert -

No time today. I'll see if I can get anywhere with this sometime.

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