[Voyage-linux] Install to regular file

[Kevin Wang]

 From Frank Hoeflich
> Folks:
> 
>     I've done well installing my Voyage 0.6.5 and 0.7.5 systems directly to compact flash for my ALIX via voyage.update from the SDK.  Is anyone out there installing directly to a dd'able, loopback-mounted regular file for production?  I tried whacking a couple of the scripts to make this happen but still haven't gotten a good burn from the file produced.  I can burn to CF first and then dd off the result to a regular file (works), but would like to eliminate the burn step for production purposes.  Any shared experience will be appreciated.

can you post some instructions? I have not used linux loopback fs
before except to mount read-only iso's.

I would suspect "bugs" in the install script, such as when it
partitions the device.  Last time I tried to run the voyage installer
on a too-old desktop, it quietly failed because the output was just
thrown away. I had to step through the shell script one line at a
time to find the problem.

   - Kevin