Hello All;
I have a linux system on a CD that I use to teach
a graduate course on Unix. I use isolinux to boot
the kernel then simply mount the CD ro and set
up some symbolic links pointing to /tmpfs for the stuff
that needs be writable. (mainly /var and /tmp). Something like
gcc is a little bit slow the first time you use it but
then it gets cached and after that it is all right.
Isolinux works just fine. No problems. What I would like
to do is somehow automatically determine what drive the cd
is on so I can mount it with out a command line prompt.
This would be quite useful since I would like the students
to be able walk up to any WindToad(TM) system in the University,
and boot Linux. The problem is that it is not known before
hand which IDE channel the CD is residing on.
Bruce
I have a linux system on a CD that I use to teach
a graduate course on Unix. I use isolinux to boot
the kernel then simply mount the CD ro and set
up some symbolic links pointing to /tmpfs for the stuff
that needs be writable. (mainly /var and /tmp). Something like
gcc is a little bit slow the first time you use it but
then it gets cached and after that it is all right.
Isolinux works just fine. No problems. What I would like
to do is somehow automatically determine what drive the cd
is on so I can mount it with out a command line prompt.
This would be quite useful since I would like the students
to be able walk up to any WindToad(TM) system in the University,
and boot Linux. The problem is that it is not known before
hand which IDE channel the CD is residing on.
Bruce