Booting a machine with only a cdrom ..

["C.J.LAWSON" <C.J.Lawson@Cranfield.ac.uk>]

Hi, 
	I am not allowed to install Linux on one of the machines on the
college, however I must get the machine to run Linux in order to write a
Linux CDROM. However, the machine has a CDROM drive which I can use. I am
just wondering if it is possible to boot from floppy and pass the
arguments root=/dev/hdb/live to the kernel so it can boot off the 'live'
part of an existing CDROM which I have. ... I then assume that I can
mount /dev/hda on /mnt and /dev/hdc on /cdrom (both mnt and cdrom are on
/hdb/live) and then simply 
	'tar xvzf /mnt/linux.tgs'
from the appropriate directory

	Please could I have your opions and comments on this
BTW: I will obtain permission to do this first.

Jonathan Lawson
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Thermal Processes Unit
Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics
School of Mechanical Engineering,
Cranfield University,
Cranfield, Bedford. UK.
email j.lawson@cranfield.ac.uk


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