On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 02:30, Emile van Bergen wrote: > Another idea: why not support an installation in an ext2 filesystem > which is really a big file on a Windows VFAT partition, mounted using a > loopback device? That would do away with all the partitioning; that > would only be needed when the user wants to get rid of the relatively > minor performance penalty of the extra FS layer. > > Can Linux work with a loopback root fs, using initrd to set it up? > > Cheers,
Actually I think Mandrake might do something roughly like that if you use the "easy" option rather than "expert" mode. After an easy mode installation it takes a wet week to do anything at all (on a Pentium 233 box). The same distro on the same box is quite quick after a so called expert mode install. Bob