Re: strange question

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:02:23PM -0500, jon wrote:
> I have one of the new adaptec 2940 u2w's... I talked to justin (the guy
> that maintains the driver for the aic7xxx), and he gave me an update (its
> a fix for what to do w/ the sequencing instructions... I think :). Is it
> possible to put the boot floppy on the hd itself and boot from it? (I'm
> pretty sure it is, just let me know if I'm way off... should just be
> setting boot=/dev/sda and then using the lilo.conf from the boot disk to
> setup the correct ramdisks. But then that leads to another
> question... I was planning to put reiserfs on this partition, so will I
> have to cpio my entire dist put reiserfs on it, and then put it back where
> it belongs? I was hoping to just put reiserfs and have the install not
> format the partition ext2fs for me. Anyways, any help will be excellent.
> 
You may try a loop mounted image of the root disk.

Then execute (I think) dbootstrap and you're off.