On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 09:44:50AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > is it possible to run Linux completely from CD.
Probably yes, if a system has sufficient RAM. One would have to combine some things: - The capability to boot directly from CD; the Debian CDs already do this. Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on the scripts that are used to create the Debian CDs. To a certain extent being able to boot a CD directly is optional; you can boot to Linux on CD using DOS or Windows (see the boot.bat on Debian CDs). - Debian follows the Linux Filesystem Standard (FSSTND) / Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/), so that the directories that need to be writable are clearly identified (e.g /usr can be on a read-only medium). SuSE uses this to run large portions of their product directly from CD. - Linux supports ramdisks, which can be used to provide a read/write medium for /var and /tmp . The combined solution would be: boot from CD, load a disk image (containing something very similar to the Debian base system) as the root filesystem, and mount /usr from the CD. HTH, Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would have the decency to betray his country. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null