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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Joel wrote:

> Right now, I've looked at Deli Linux, and found some kernels, but no ide
> is available by itself. That's because the ide kernel is in the ide.dsk
> boot image. I tried extracting it with Winimage, but it wouldn't work. I
> also tried writing the disk with Rawrite, and then getting the kernel,
> but it is written in ext2 format. So, if somebody has a good .dsk
> extractor and can transfer it to a windows format, that would be
> fabulous.

Do you have BL installed?  If so, you might be able to mount the disk
image as a looped filesystem, then copy the kernel over to your BL
partition.  To do this, you'd load the file onto your BL partition.  Then,
you's create a mount point: maybe something like

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mkdir /mnt/deli
-----------------

Then, you'd mount the disk image there.  Something like

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mount -t ext2 -o loop /path/to/ide.dsk /mnt/deli
------------------------------------------------

Then, you'd surf to the /mnt/deli partition (I use mc, myself), locate the
kernel image and copy it to the regular filesystem.  Or maybe to a DOS
partition if you boot from DOS.  Then, unmount the looped filesystem:

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umount /mnt/deli
----------------

Could this be done from BL2 ramdisk, Steven?

James