On 11/1/05, Wade Curry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> boblq said:
>
> > The one I want is Quantian, a Knoppix / Debian variant tailored
> > to numerical and quantitative analysis.
> > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html
> >
> > They have a CD version but most of them are over that limit.
> >
> > Thanks for all the suggestions,
> >
> > BobLQ
> >
>
> This may be a moot point at this stage, however..
>
> Knoppix has a "bootfrom=/dev/hdx#/nameof.iso" parameter that you can use at
> boot
> time. As long as you boot from a knoppix cd/dvd that is using the same
> kernel, then
> you can enter this boot parameter to tell knoppix to switch to an iso image
> on your
> hard drive.
>
> This is nice for a number of things, but several off the top of my head would
> be:
> 1) You don't want knoppix to monopolize the cd drive, because after you
> switch to
> the iso on the hard drive, obviously you can remove the cdrom.
>
> 2) A pc only has a CD drive, but you want to actually run the DVD iso.
>
> 3) You want to test ISOs that you're hacking. You wouldn't need to burn a DVD
> everytime you wanted to test a change.
>
> Anyway, when I boot up I use the following:
>
> boot: knoppix bootfrom=/dev/hda1/knoppix39.iso
>
Have you thought about what it would take to eliminate the necessity
for the initial boot CD with the matching Linux kernel? A minimum
boot CD that didn't have the whole KNOPPIX directory with its
compressed KNOPPIX file? (thus being able to use a small CD instead
of a DVD, or maybe even a thumb drive).
I'm thinking about it now, but haven't reached any good conclusion. I
will probably try making a CD image that has only the boot/isolinux
directory and its contents, and see what it does. If this works, one
could modify isolinux.cfg so that it defaulted to the "bootfrom= ..."
command.
carl
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