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[Ian Scott <mriscott AT yahoo.co.uk>]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:26:39AM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> 
> Is there some way to mount the loop (fs.img) using BL2 hd or ramdisk on 
> that computer in order to install to HD (or to see if I can even access 
> the loop version that way)?  Would I mount the loop to /mnt and then 
> chroot somehow?  How do I mount the loop if so:  mount /dev/loop /mnt?
> This is too far beyond my understand but should be educational.
>
You would want to do something like:

boot bl2

mkdir /dos
mount /dev/hda1 /dos
insmod loop
mount -o loop /dos/baslin/fs.img /mnt
chroot /mnt /bin/sh


Then run install-to-hd and follow the instructions.


Ian