Another annoyance

[J. Blank]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Samuel Rydh wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 03:00:12AM -0600, J. Blank wrote:
> > Where does that parameter go?
> >
> Before ./configure in the build process:
>
> 	CFLAGS=-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 ./configure
>
> However, if you build from the developer tree, then large
> file support should work out-of-the-box.

I have looked on the Web site for a "developer" or "CVS" version. All I
see is .68 and older. Where is this developer release? Is it quasi-stable?
;)

>
> > On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > > |> Now I'm installing OS X... I tried using a partition on a drive (i.e.:
> > > |> /dev/hdf4), but Mac OS X said that I could not install onto it because I
> > > |> cannot boot off of it. So I made a large (6GB-- I am using jfs and can do
> > > |> that) disk image. When I started MOL with it, I get:
>
> Another workaround is using a loopback device. I.e.
>
> 	losetup /dev/loop1 file_image
>
> (from memory) and in MOL
>
> 	blkdev:	/dev/loop1 -rw -force
>

Ahhhhh! I should have thought of that. Many thanks! Very clever.

> The -force flag is necessary since the image has not
> been HFS[+] formatted yet.
>
> /Samuel
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