Re: Bootable (Knoppix-like) CD -- ramdisks

2003-08-21 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 04:42:34AM +0100, Greg Buchholz wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Philip Charles wrote: > > For a GNU live CD to work a hurdish ramdisk would have to be created and > > setup at the initial boot. If this could be done we could also use this > > to create a native GNU install

Re: Bootable (Knoppix-like) CD -- ramdisks

2003-08-21 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:21:23PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > > Can translators be stored on an iso filesystem? If not we are probably > fscked from the start. Thomas put extensions for that into iso9660fs, but I have no idea how to create such an image in the first place. We might need to

Re: Bootable (Knoppix-like) CD -- ramdisks

2003-08-21 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Greg Buchholz wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Philip Charles wrote: > > For a GNU live CD to work a hurdish ramdisk would have to be created and > > setup at the initial boot. If this could be done we could also use this > > to create a native GNU installer. At the moment th

Bootable (Knoppix-like) CD -- ramdisks

2003-08-20 Thread Greg Buchholz
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Philip Charles wrote: > For a GNU live CD to work a hurdish ramdisk would have to be created and > setup at the initial boot. If this could be done we could also use this > to create a native GNU installer. At the moment the CDs have to use a > Linux ramdisk and then reboot