Re: An ambitious idea (+ some introductory gossip) --> All in One CD

From: Joe Pugh (jpugh@tucker-usa.com)
Date: Fri Nov 10 2000 - 14:41:08 CET


you guys have the biggest brains on the planet !

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michele Andreoli" <m.andreoli@tin.it>
To: <mulinux@sunsite.auc.dk>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 2:42 AM
Subject: Re: An ambitious idea (+ some introductory gossip) --> All in One
CD

> On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 12:25:58AM +0100, Massimo nicely wrote:
> >
> > Solution: today PC have always a CD drive, and can
> > CD-reboot. I feel people (at least my guys) would have
> > liked very much ALSO (not: _only_) to be able to BUILD
> > a single CD with BASE+ADDONS+setup_tool aboard, for
> > RAM or true ext2 installations.
>
> I have this CD (I made it running the script "roclone" from
> an UMSDOS muLinux). The CD run perfectly and I donate it to
> a lot of my friend.
>
> >
> > Is it impossible to conceive such a possibility? You
> > talked about CD-burning tools. Good. I'd like, after
> > having downloaded anything in a /some/dir (or perhaps
> > \some\dir), to find a CD-burning batch that can make
> > the >>muLinux CD<<.
>
> The El-Torito Mulinux gets produced like other mutants does,
> i.e. from a working muLinux. muLinux, simply, reply itself
> on a CDROM, arranging the stuff in order to mantain /, /tmp
> in RAM, /usr on the CD (in a loop filesystem).
>
>
> About SRV/WKS: this is only a surreptitious way to have an EXT
> with much more disk-space. I never talked about revolutionary
> changes. Full-stop.
>
> Now, with 3 floppy-disk (BASE, WKS, SRV) you have a complete
> last-century UNIX system on your hands.
>
> > PS:
> > > P.S: anycase, the "Avogadro Number" belongs Physics of Chemistry?
> > > Ah, saperlo!
> >
> > Physics, of course. ANYTHING belongs to Physics, by default.
> >
> No dirlo, ti prego!
>
> Michele
> --
> "I'd like to conclude with a positive statement, but I can't remember any.
> Would two negative ones do?" -- Woody Allen
>
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