Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 03:21:33PM +0200, Niklas H=F6glund wrote: > > > is it possible to run Linux completely from CD. We have created > >=20 > > I think older versions of Red Hat supported this. I remember reading > > something about it on Red Hat 4.2. RH4.2 was said to no longer support > > this. [...] > The message before this one explains how to make a CD with defaults and a > throwaway /var and /etc. I think instead I would in order to make this > thing not just a demo but actually useful in a place that you can't have > Linux (goin' to friend's house, friend has Windoze but I wanna use Linux) > I'd have some way to use a loopback filesystem on the HD to save defaults > like X settings and such. > > Could be quite useful. I'll look in to building something to do this if > nobody else has once I start working on the Zip version of the same. More > will fit on the CD-ROM, but the Zip is more upgradable and I can build the > Zip disks custom from a mirror.. =3D>
There exist plans to include a "live filesystem" on the contrib CD, for backup/restore purposes. Plans though are early and not much has been done, yet. Jens --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter Key fingerprint: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 Nothing works better as it is supposed to. (Steven Chu) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
