In your email to me, Dale Scheetz, you wrote: > I am aware of how to do this with loadlin and initrd, however, the only > reason for using initrd is to configure mount points on the CD to r/w disk > for the portions of the system that needs to be changed from time to time. > I don't think that initrd can be run from lilo (but I could be mistaken), > but if you are willing to configure the system (fstab for instance) > completely before comitting it to CD you should be able to boot the CD > from a small partition with lilo and a kernel that has built in drivers > for the cd drive. However, this is a lot of work to get a system that > will, by virtue of CD access speeds be brutally slow.
True, but faster than floppies, and only 1 disk! > The main reason for my interst in this path is that it provides a path for > bringing up a system (larger than base) without boot, root, and base > disketts, from which a "real" system can be installed with all the > networking tools needed to perform this installation in whatever method > the installer desires. Thats what I want to do too. Almost every install I've been doing on other peoples machines have had win31 or 95 on it with a working CDROM. > I have been hearing on Linux-Kernel that there is work being done to patch > the kernel so that it will boot with a loop device, thus allowing an ext2 > file system to be built as a file image that can be copied to any > partition (either dos or linux) and be booted using the loop device to > mount root. This would be a read/write filesystem without the limitations > on umsdos file systems. This configuration can be booted from either lilo > or loadlin. That would be perfect... Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Madness takes its toll... Please have exact change! ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
