Hello there, I have a question/suggestion. I have a bootable CDRom and it comes up with an isolinux menu that lets me pick from several different floppy images to boot Dos and several different Linux Rescue Disks using memdisk. So far so good. What I would like to be able to do is boot a bootable image that is not a floppy image. For example, DemoLinux is a 650MB iso file and when burned to a cd it boots. What I would like to do is be able to boot the iso image after picking it from a menu. Perhaps that isn't the best example, lets say you have two distros LinuxA and LinuxB and they are both 200MB so they can both fit on one cd. You can't expand the iso's because the common directories such as /etc would collide and then only one of the distros would work. So you would like to keep them nicely bundled in their manufactures iso file until you pick them from a menu and thereby giving you two different large distros on the same cd. If you can already do this then I'll be damned if I know how and I apologize for asking you a tech support question, but if you can't do it then I think it would be super great if you could. I'd write it myself but I don't know how. ;) My 2 cents, Kurt Neufeld ps-if you reply from a different email address put 'NotSpam' anywhere in the subject or the email will bounce back asking you for it.
Kurt Neufeld wrote:> > Perhaps that isn't the best example, lets say you have two distros > LinuxA and LinuxB and they are both 200MB so they can both fit on one > cd. You can't expand the iso's because the common directories such as > /etc would collide and then only one of the distros would work. So you > would like to keep them nicely bundled in their manufactures iso file > until you pick them from a menu and thereby giving you two different > large distros on the same cd. >You could use hard disk emulation, I guess, but hard disk emulation is broken in most BIOSes. Sorry, I don't expect to see this. -hpa
Hi,> I have a bootable CDRom and it comes up with an isolinux menu that lets me > pick from several different floppy images to boot Dos and several different > Linux Rescue Disks using memdisk. So far so good. > > What I would like to be able to do is boot a bootable image that is not a > floppy image. > > For example, DemoLinux is a 650MB iso file and when burned to a cd it > boots. What I would like to do is be able to boot the iso image after > picking it from a menu.> If you can already do this then I'll be damned if I know how and I > apologize for asking you a tech support question, but if you can't do it > then I think it would be super great if you could.I think this should be handled by an initrd, so you have the kernel, initrd and .iso-images of the distribution on the CD, and then the initrd mounts the preferred iso-image as a loopback file for the root filesystem. Regards, Josef ______________________________________________________________________________ FreeMail in der Premiumversion! Mit mehr Speicher, mehr Leistung, mehr Erlebnis und mehr Pr?mie. Jetzt unter http://club.web.de/?mc=021105