[ale] easy iso upgrades

[Dana Powers]

You cant add files to the actual cdrom, but what you _can_ do ( what
gentoo livecd almost does ) is mount the system in a ramdisk and
symlink to the important files on the mounted cd. You could then
apt-get, wget, emerge, or what-have-you , whatever you want, assuming
your networking was configured properly, and install it into the
ramdisk as if it were any other type of rw filesystem.

I have also been thinking alot lately about os on disk systems. Very
cool things are possible if you could fuse the device support that
windows seems to have with the stability and no-need-for-reboot power
of the linux kernel with the network-is-the-computer approach of
distros like debian or gentoo.

The gentoo LiveCD w/ Unreal Tourney 2003 is mindboggling.

dpk

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Turner" <artic_knight at yahoo.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 11:07 AM
Subject: [ale] easy iso upgrades


> hey i was getting back into fooling with os's on cdroms, i was
curious,
> say i got a cd image and i want to add files via apt-get emerge or
some
> other automated installer, can you do this? like maybe chroot into
the iso
> image or something while its mounted on the hd i dunno, it would be
neat
> :-p anyone know if it cant be done? it would make, makeing boot cds
easier
> to compile thats for sure
>
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