Re: Loop-mounted root
Sven Rudolph <sr1@loom.sax.de> writes:
> I remember there were some discussions on using a loop-mounted root file
> system for hosting an installation system.
>
> (Example: A CD contains a big file that contains a whole ext2 fs.)
>
> There were some Linux kernel patches for this. What's the current
> state of these patches and where are they. (Or are they already part
> of stock kernel? I haven't found them there.)
If you use a ramdisk to boot up you can attach a file to a loppback
device with losetup and set the loopback device as
real_rool_dev. After that the kernel will boot from the loopback
device when /linuxrc finishes.
A script creating a filesystem able too be run from a CD can be found
at
ftp://mirjam.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/pub/debian/demofs/
May the Source be with you.
Goswin
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