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Subject: Re: running freebsd in qemu using the "-nographic" option ?
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> >So basically what I want to do now is mount the freeBSD image in a
> >loopback and modify the boot.conf file directly. Anyone knows how to
> >do this under linux (2.6 if relevant) ? BSD seems to have a "weird"
> >way of organizing the disk. Which file system shoud I support ?

I would just do it on FreeBSD - man mdconfig. Last I looked (years ago) the UFS 
support on linux was not actively maintained and I would be very surprised if 
they have UFS2 support. I've had to create my own root images for doing work on 
xen so I know it works just fine. If you insist on doing it on Linux, the 
command is losetup. 
to bind:
> losetup /dev/loop0 <root image> 
to unbind:
> losetup -d /dev/loop0



			-Kip