Re: Loop device

Phil Brutsche (pbrutsch@creighton.edu)
Thu, 4 Dec 1997 09:50:50 -0600 (CST)


On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Joshua Spoerri wrote:
>
> > this is especially the case if the new implementation allows using loop
> > for the root filesystem. (that allows, for instance, booting linux from
> > a couple of files on a dos drive.)
>
> Or even better, using a file on the installation CD to mount
> as root-fs... like the umsdos is today.
> This way we can have a clean top-level dir on the CD, and we
> can run without ramdisks and the like...
All the more reason to include the patch. :-) Also
DriveSpace/DoubleSpace-type functionality, among other things.

>
> grtz,
>
> Rik.
>
>

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