RE: Bootable CD
Hi,
I have a question about the Red Hat 7.1 installation CD.
The Red Hat installation disk has a GUI application that runs to
install it. In some point of the installation this programs ask to the user
to put the Red Hat disk 2, how is it possible if there is a file in the disk
1 mounted in the loop device? If you see the mtab file in the /etc you will
see:
/tmp/loop /mnt/runtime ext2 ro 0 0
What is this file in loop? Is the file /RedHat/base/stage2.img
mounted there? It has the same content of the /mnt/runtime.
How it is possible to change the CDs with this file mounted?
Thanks,
-----Original Message-----
From: Wouter Verhelst [mailto:wouter@debian.org]
Sent: terça-feira, 28 de agosto de 2001 15:02
To: BERNARDES,JOAN (Non-HP-Brazil,ex1)
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: Bootable CD
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, BERNARDES,JOAN (Non-HP-Brazil,ex1) wrote:
> How is it possible to switch CD during and Linux installation if you
> have a file mounted in a loop device?
Since... you don't.
That file is loaded to memory and gunzipped somewhere in the process, then
mounted as a RAM-disc.
> How can Red Hat do this? What Debian do to switch CDs?
> If I'm running a GUI application in a bootable CD how can I change
> the CD and still run the application?
Again: don't run it directly from CD, but run it from a RAMdisk
instead. You will need a fair amount of RAM to install an X server in a
RAM-disk, though.
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