Re: [plug] Boot a full Linux on a CD.

[Juan Miguel Cacho]

En Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:06:29PM +0100, Cito Maramba escribio:
#_ 
#_ Speaking of which, i've just tried the SuSE 7.1 Lite Eval CD which lets
#_ you run linux - you guessed it.. straight from the CD-ROM. It will look
#_ for space on your hard disk to install some files (actually an image that
#_ it will mount on a loopback device i think), but even if you don't have a
#_ hard disk (like my laptop), it will still run. Pretty good, although the
#_ window manager defaults to KDE (yuggh). I'm trying to figure out a way to
#_ get my handrolled module for my funky Billionton PCMCIA Network card
#_ (rtl8139), folded into it.

Try mkinitrd, you can preload modules into ramdisk before any partitions are
mounted.

man mkinitrd for the specifics.

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