Hi! Oliver Zendel wrote:
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 02:57:34PM +0200, Simon Peter wrote:Hello everyone, is it possible to run Knoppix from CD, rw-mount a hard disk into the filesystem and install additional software via apt-get to the hard disk without having to install knoppix itself on hard disk? How could this be done?this will only be possible by using an overlay filesystem but there is no overlay filesytem for gnu/linux available.
I just found the following on freshmeat (updated today): http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~wiedeman/development/ From the README: "insmod translucency.o from=/given/dir to=/other/dir this module will install tweaked syscall handlers that redirecteach access for files within a given directory to another one while failed reads (nonexistent overlay files) will cause fallback to the original files thus virtually (logically) merging both directories
(possibly being on different medii with different filesystems each) the process is also known as: inheriting (ifs), stacking, translucency (tfs), loopback (lofs), overlaying (ovlfs)" Greetings Henning _______________________________________________ debian-knoppix mailing list debian-knoppix@linuxtag.org http://mailman.linuxtag.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-knoppix