using vmware for testing (was Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Future improvement ideas. (resend/new thread :))

[Friedrich L. <fl...@fl...>]

Bruce Smith wrote:
>>PS: vmware is great when it comes to test the boot process. You
>>can just boot of an iso image and the floppy drive is simulated
>>via a floppy image.
> 
> 
> I'll do that, thanks for the tip!

Your welcome.


> Speaking of testing, what good is the results of "make dist"?
> Can that be used for testing some how?

Actually for testing you'd only need to run 'make iso'.

Another tip:
Put a dos formated disk into drive a: then do
   dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy-image
You can mount this
   mount floppy-image /mnt -o loop
   cd /mnt
   rm *      (only if floppy was not empty)
   tar -xvjf /path-to/etc.tar.bz2
   cd homedir
   umount /mnt

Now configure vmware to use the bootcd.iso and the floppy-image
files as cdrom and floppy drive.

For testing you'd usually cd to tmp/ISO/initrdtree and create
your scripts there (except for config/etc/initrd/linuxrc,
config/etc/initrd/links and tmp/ETC/etc/init.d/functions).

Then run 'scripts/build.sh iso' and retest with vmware.

Happy hacking!

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Friedrich Lobenstock
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Friedrich Lobenstock                       Linux Services Lobenstock
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