On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Chris Plunkett wrote:
> > Slackware Linux has a useable filesystem on CD-ROM, however the boot
> > partition still has to be HD or Floppy. One thing that puzzles me about
> > bootable media is if you have a bootable CD, how does it install the
> > drivers for itself to read from the CD to actually start reading the boot
> > sector (which supposedly is on the CD). Kind of a Catch-22. Forgive me, but
> > I'm no PC guru...
>
> Or, you could get a SUN and type boot cd.
As far as I know, this does *not* run with a RO filesystem. It rather
creates an in-memory writeable root filesystem (ramdisk in PC-speak)
Tom
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