Jim Rippon wrote:
I would dd the file to the drive (/dev/hda), have a look at the partition table to see what has been created. My suspicion is that it will have created one or more partitions from the image, and you can then create your own swap partitions within.
OK, so I made some progress...
I booted from an Ubuntu LiveCD, with the webconverger USB image on a flash disk. Then: sudo dd if=/media/myflashdisk/webconverger.img of=/dev/hda .. has created a single bootable FAT32 partition on my hard disk. (Obviously it goes without saying to not do this if what is already on the hard disk matters to you!)
I also created a swap partition on the disk while I was in Ubuntu so I need to set that up and see what else I can play with now.
However, when I now look at the files on the partition, it's basically using isolinux to boot from the compressed image, so in practice I've got a working version booting from hard disk, but it doesn't gain me any flexibility in terms of editing the files on the disk.
I did wonder about booting into webconverger and copying from the extracted files now residing in memory over to the hard drive, but webconverger ties everything down and I can't get out of the browser.
My main interest in this is that I'm learning quite a lot of bits and pieces about the boot process as I go along, so I'd like to keep working through this if anyone has any suggestions?