I belive it was open source, but I can no longer find it :( Not surprising
since it was probably archived onto a cd some two years ago. I thought I
found it on bootdisk.com but if I did it is no longer their. I do remeber
that it could only read fat & ext2 drives when looking for the ISO's, which
bumbed me out since I wanted to put them on my larger NTFS partition. But
that is just an aside.
If I had the source it would be cool, but I am not enough of a C person to try
to get it working on PPC or get it to understand FS+
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> 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,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>I
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>>can produce that.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Thank you in advance!
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>R. Whitney
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