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  • From: Ian Scott <mriscott AT yahoo.co.uk>
  • To: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • Cc: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL3 looop won't work on two Gateways
  • Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:06:36 +0000

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






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