"Big" disk image problem with current Debian version

Menaka Lashitha Bandara mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:36:31 +1100


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On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 14:30, Derrik Pates wrote:

> and so on, and so forth. I tried using an image of the CD to boot from=20
> to do the install, and got the same net result (slightly different=20
> addresses). I'm surprised it doesn't have largefile support, so that big=20
> disk images can be handled - but even then, what can we do about the=20
> unmapped access errors? Any ideas? I can probably hack in largefile=20
> support, but I don't know the inner secrets of handling the virtual disk=20
> stuff, so me hacking in largefile support would only be a small part of=20
> the answer.

I actually have a 2GB file that I use as a disk, and it works fine with
MOL. Have you tried running mac-fdisk image.file and create a partition
map? That might do the trick. What version of MOL are you running by the
way?

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