Tiny Core Linux

General TC => General TC Talk => Topic started by: linus72 on June 14, 2009, 07:14:07 AM

Title: Anyone here have a partitioned qemu-img vhd that boots different distros??
Post by: linus72 on June 14, 2009, 07:14:07 AM

Meaning, I know members here have portable-tinycore, etc that runs using qemu off usb
or whatever.
But, how many here have a partitioned vhd that boots various os's and how did you do it?
thanks

Title: Re: Anyone here have a partitioned qemu-img vhd that boots different distros??
Post by: curaga on June 14, 2009, 07:29:39 AM

Doing that wouldn't differ from a regular comp at all. Create a big disk image, point it as hda, then use iso images of distros-to-be-installed one at a time. The first distro will do the partitioning and bootloader installation, and when you're done, you only point your PC emulator to the hd and boot.

Title: Re: Anyone here have a partitioned qemu-img vhd that boots different distros??
Post by: linus72 on June 14, 2009, 07:50:22 AM

Yes, thanks Curaga.
But, for instance do you use a portable-vhd, and if so, what distro's do you have installed?
does yours run on Linux and Windows?
And, did you use grubster or lilo?
thanks ;)

Title: Re: Anyone here have a partitioned qemu-img vhd that boots different distros??
Post by: curaga on June 14, 2009, 01:06:19 PM

No, I don't do that, as I see no need to - it's IMO easier to keep the hard drive images separate.
There are no limits to what distros, bootloaders or OSes one can use, well if they work in the emulator that is.