Re: Hurd advocacy? Bootable (Knoppix-like) CD?
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 11:42:13AM +1200, Philip Charles wrote:
> For a GNU live CD to work a hurdish ramdisk would have to be created and
> setup at the initial boot. If this could be done we could also use this
> to create a native GNU installer. At the moment the CDs have to use a
> Linux ramdisk and then reboot into GNU once the HDD has been setup. I can
> think of no way of rebooting into a ramdisk.
A more interesting setup would be to mount the filesystem on CD and then
layer a unionfs on top of it.
Thanks,
Marcus
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