Juan Miguel Cacho wrote:
> 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.
Appreciate the help, however, i'm booting from a CD i got from a
magazine, kinda hard to write the ramdisk image onto an already pressed
CDROM.
I already made my own custom boot image using pcinitrd way back in
January, so I can use my PCMCIA hard disk as my root drive. The internal
hard drive of my laptop died before Christmas last year.
In June, I made my own custom boot cd using my boot floppies as the boot
image. To fill up the remaining space i burned 500 MB worth of MP3s into
it as well.
Not saying you weren't helpful, just want to point out, that I've been
there, done that, got the pictures to prove it..
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