Re: loop-root (was What's Debian's /usr/src policy)

[Michael Stone <mstone@itri.loyola.edu>]

Quoting Adam P. Harris (apharris@onshore.com):
> [(Dale Scheetz)]
> >With a small patch to the kernel and some modification of the loop device
> >code, you can create a file-system-in-a-file. 
> 
> You can do this already in stock debian (rex and hamm) with 
>   mount -o loop -t <fs> <file> <mount point> 
> 
> Why do you need to patch the kernel for this?

I think there was a kernel patch to allow booting directly off the
loopback device, without needing a floppy.
 
Mike Stone


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