On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 12:39:32PM +0100, Jeremy Smyth wrote:
> After playing with my new "fudgie" a bit, I reckon I'd like a real CD, with
> a full installation on it, proper XF86Config, my home dir, my /etc/passwd,
> my fstab, and so on. Has anyone done this? Is it as simple as copying my / ,
> buggering with lilo.conf to mount / as iso9660, and doing some magic with a
> boot sector? (no idea how)
Not quite :-) The Linuxcare CD relies on a special module, which mounts a
compressed image of a filesystem with a special module. I don't see any
reason why you couldn't create a CD with whatever you like in the compressed
filesystem (although of course it's mounted RO)
Regards,
Niall
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