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by Mike Levin on July 29, 2010
This last step is hardly worthy of its own blog post, so I will spice it up a bit with giving a custom icon on the PC side. When I get home, I will have to do the equivalent on the Mac side. There appear to be ways to do this on the PC for [...]
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by Mike Levin on July 29, 2010
Call it what you will, it’s a pain to get rid of that CMD window that pops up when you double-click a .bat file. This post will address how to do that so we can elegantly launch our the ideal Linux USB pendrive with a simple icon double-click, whether we’re on a PC or Mac. [...]
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by Mike Levin on July 29, 2010
Okay Padawan, while I’m dying to put the finishing touches on the ability to easily double-click launch our pendrive virtual machine from either PC or Mac, there’s one more step that comes first that I neglected to show. It’s the last thing before you can consider the bare-bones install finished. And that’s configuring the network [...]
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by Mike Levin on July 29, 2010
So this is the real-deal: a USB flash-drive virtual machine that will readily boot under either a Windows or Mac, running directly from the removable device without an install. Due to the decisions that went into its creation, it’s got a ton of advantages. Let’s look at a few. First, it’s well-documented. I pieced together [...]
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by Mike Levin on July 29, 2010
Despite the fact that the Mac has this wonderful concept of “application bundles” that lets you masquerade a directory as a program to carry around all your resources and dependencies, this version of Q hasn’t gotten it exactly right. Oh, it bundles it alright including everything required to run the virtual machine, I found out. [...]
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by Mike Levin on July 28, 2010
Welcome everyone searching for qemu on the Mac. Let’s get it out of the way: this article is about Q, the still-viable, but rapidly becoming out-of-date version that takes advantage of Mac’s user interface, and my experience getting it working and dissecting the way it can package stand-alone copies that don’t require installing the whole [...]
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by Mike Levin on July 27, 2010
Okay, I think we’re all getting a bit impatient now to see our Noah’s Arc JeOS box boot. Edit your /etc/fstab file system table. I told you to use the nano text editor last time, and that’s fine. But I think it’s time to introduce you to the much more powerful, but strange vi program. [...]
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by Mike Levin on July 27, 2010
At this point, I’m actually going to shut down and copy out the hard drive file for the ultimate undo. So far, I’ve done that three times. I have: harddisk-formatted.raw harddisk-base.raw harddisk-kernel.raw This way, I can rename any of them back to harddisk.raw, drop it into the QEMU directory, and go back to that state. [...]
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by Mike Levin on July 27, 2010
Okay, as the previous posts pointed out ad nauseam, the result of running debootstrap is not actually a booted system. Because I believe my audience is new to the whole Linux, and perhaps even configuring hardware to boot, I’m going to break it down one step at a time, and follow the proper sequential order [...]
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by Mike Levin on July 27, 2010
Before moving onto the next step of making this debootstrap QEMU Debian Linux boot, I thought I would interject some foo-foo thoughts. In case you haven’t noticed, I’m not one of those elite techno dweebs that derives their identity from putting down people who don’t know these things. I’ve gotten to where I am by [...]
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I am Mike Levin+, an Earned Media Optimizer, husband, daddy & Linux / Python hacker living on top of the hill on top of the island on top of the world. I put my stream-of-consciousness here in order to create greater commitment and consistency in pursuit of my goals.
