Re: [debian-knoppix] Ejecting CD and playing music?

[Alex de Landgraaf <alextreme@xs4all.nl>]

> Mandrake has announced MandrakeMove, a run from the cd version.  Their
> website says after booting you can eject the CD and play music. How are
> they doing that, and how can we get that feature working on Knoppix and
> its derivitives?

This is possible in Knoppix and derivatives, if you load the whole thing into
RAM (knoppix toram). The only other possibility is that MM copies itself to the
harddisk, continues to load from there and unlocks the cdrom drive. Anything
else would be pretty much impossible imo...

Cheers,

Alex 

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