[Gllug] Knoppix and similar

[Jack Bertram]

* John Hearns <john.hearns at clustervision.com> [040917 16:31]:
> On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 16:03, Jack Bertram wrote:
> > Anyway, there's nothing to stop you installing the CD image to the hard
> > disk (where it will take up 700MB of space, leaving room for swap etc) and
> > running it from there just as from the original CD.  This would be faster
> > than running it from the CD.
> > 
> Is this an option in Knoppix?
> I can see how you would mount the ISO image as a loopback,
> but how would you get the thing to boot in the first place?
> I guess there will be some Syslinux magic.

I've never used Knoppix, so I don't know whether this is an available
feature of the installer.

However, it shouldn't be that hard to come up with an initrd which
booted a loopback filesystem.

j
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