Do you have the source for this modified loader? Is it Open Source?
Bryan.ONeal@asu.edu wrote:
>Well, the knoppix people probably could not help because (and correct me if
>I'm wrong) PPC is not a popular port for Knoppix. I asked on a few Yellow Dog
>list and they sorta indicated I was a fool for even trying (since I should
>only run installed YDL?) And the Ubuntu forum was not very responsive to my
>request I think, like asking BSD questions on Mac forums, they know it's
>relevant, but it still scares them :)
>
>BTW the Mac forums where dead quite to the question and the XUsers group had
>never heard of the use of this advanced boot loader / small host os thing to
>read and load OS from a file. Eventually some one smarter then I shall port
>something cool, and when they do I will say "Hey that's cool" :)
>
>
>Not a big deal, when I get some cash I am thinking about picking up a F/W
>drive and just loading a few things on their. I just wanted to play with a
>few live distro's and use the CD/DVD-R drive
>
>
>On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, ec wrote:
>
>
>
>>Join and ask the forums on knoppix.net. ???
>>
>>--- Bryan.ONeal@asu.edu wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hehehe, yha, but can you do it on a PPC using soft
>>>partitions (disk images of
>>>.iso or .dmg files?) ie. boot to a disk image on my
>>>G4....
>>>
>>>A while back I had a modified loader (from some one)
>>>that read .iso files as
>>>active CDROMS and loaded them as if they came from
>>>the CDROM. Unfortunatly
>>>I can not find my i386 version and even if I did I
>>>would still need a PPC
>>>version (Sigh)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, ec wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Even tho I have Mepis installed, I am on
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Knoppix3.6
>>>
>>>
>>>>mirrored image right now Bryan! Here's how in
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Knoppix.
>>>
>>>
>>>>http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Basic_Poor_Mans
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>--- Bryan.ONeal@asu.edu wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I would love to be able to do this sort of thing
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>for
>>>
>>>
>>>>>a couple of live CD's on
>>>>>my G4 laptop... ie. boot to a disk image...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>Any
>>>
>>>
>>>>>thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>>>On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, ec wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Oh, and it looks like you have more than one
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>hd on
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>that or at least more than one partition. You
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>could do
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>a 'poor man's install' of Knoppix to another
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>partition
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>so as to free up the cdrom/dvdrom writer if
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>only
>>>
>>>
>>>>>one
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>on the machine. What it does is copy verbatim
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>the
>>>
>>>
>>>>>cd
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>and with the Knoppix cd in the cdrom, it loads
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>only
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>vmlinux...about 2 seconds worth then runs off
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>the
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>'poor man's copied cdrom on the partition.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>http://www.knoppix.net
>>>>>>
>>>>>>should have a 'how to' on poorman's install.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>If
>>>
>>>
>>>>>not,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>email me, I know how to.
>>>>>>--- Richard Whitney <rw@xend.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Hello!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I'd like to save what data I can from this
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>drive. I
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>have tried to reinstall
>>>>>>>like 5 distors and they all report
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>unrecoverable
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>>errors on hdf1 (/home).
>>>>>>>It's always been separate from / (hda1).
>>>>>>>Recovery experts!
>>>>>>>If you need the exact error from, say,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>Fedora -
>>>
>>>
>>>>>I
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>can produce that.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Thank you in advance!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>R. Whitney
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