Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264802AbTFLKWl (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 06:22:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264803AbTFLKWl (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 06:22:41 -0400 Received: from draco.cus.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.18]:39418 "EHLO draco.cus.cam.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264802AbTFLKWk (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 06:22:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:36:24 +0100 (BST) From: Anton Altaparmakov To: lode leroy cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Q: how to run linux in a diskimage on NTFS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2108 Lines: 61 Have a look at http://www.phatlinux.com/ as they install Linux in a file on windows (I don't know how they sort out the boot but you can find out yourself). Hope this helps, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, lode leroy wrote: > I want to run linux on an embedded system that does > not have a CDROM or FLOPPY, so the only possibility > is to go over the network. > > The machine is running WinXP, and I would prefer not > to install a boot manager, or destroy the filesystem, > which is NTFS. > > Is there a possibility to do the following: > > 1) put the following files on the NTFS partition: > bootsector (<- don't know how to create this one) > bootmanager (<- don't know what to put here) > kernel image > ramdisk image > disk image > 2) call the bootsector from NTLDR > 3) call the bootmanager from the bootsector > 4) load the kernel and ramdisk image from the bootmanager > 5) mount the NTFS partition READ-WRITE > 6) mount the disk image READ-WRITE over the loopback device > > 7) if possible, disable NTFS/WRITE for anything but the disk image. > > > Can anyone advise me on which bootmanager to use? > Can anyone tell me if this is possible? > > -- lode > > ps: please CC me directly > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Search, for relevant search results! http://search.msn.be > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/