On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 01:51:38PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > You don't. In both cases, you need to download an image, boot the native > > OS, start a kernel loader which will put the image up as a RAMdisk, and > > go from there. The difference is that the CD-ROM image will get its > > udebs from CDROM, whereas the network image will work with the network. > > So it's much more like the hd-media stuff we have on i386. Yes, except not mounted loopback. A native bootloader, kernel, and ramdisk all reside on the native filesystem. Amiga and mac can *only* be booted this way. boot-floppies delivered a tarball which contained all three of these things for download onto a native partition. I'm not sure I intend to emulate that, though. How about I create a new type called nativehd or something? -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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