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Re: Partitionless rescue booting



On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:47:30PM -0000, vdemart@supereva.it wrote:
> 
> I have the 2 official debian 3.0 installation CDs with the rescue
> stuff.  I wonder if it's possible to boot with them without defining &
> mounting a real hd partition but using only the memory (I've 256 MB of
> memory). I didn't find any of the kind in the documentation in the
> CDs.  If it is possible, a straightforward  explanation about how to.

You can certainly boot from the CDs without a HD.  You want to install
into a RAM disk?  That seems kind of pointless, but it can be done.
Maybe what you really want is Knoppix.  I imagine the homepage is
http://knoppix.org/, but I'm not sure.

-rob

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