Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: fdutils. | Date | 14 Nov 2001 17:15:07 -0800 |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0111150027200.3058-100000@Consulate.UFP.CX> By author: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.cx> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > As I see it, there are the following options available: > > 1. Insist that those using the rescue CD have two CD drives. > > In my book, that's a non-starter, so 'nuff said). > > 2. Prohibit access to the CD drive for anything other than the > rescue CD. > > 3. Copy the contents of the CD into a ramdisk, then run from > the ramdisk. > > If the user has enough RAM, maybe, but if not... > > 4. Provide a "Virtual CD Drive" on single CD drive systems > (similar to the way drive B: on MS-DOS 2.00 and later is a > virtual floppy drive on single floppy systems). > > I'm not sure how this would work in practice, but it could > be done, I'm sure. >
All of this is why different rescue-CD distributions take different approaches... as well as those that use other means such as floppy- or network-booting.
One size doesn't necessarily fit all, and that's just fine.
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