Stephen R Marenka wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 01:51:38PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > You don't. In both cases, you need to download an image, boot the native > > > OS, start a kernel loader which will put the image up as a RAMdisk, and > > > go from there. The difference is that the CD-ROM image will get its > > > udebs from CDROM, whereas the network image will work with the network. > > > > So it's much more like the hd-media stuff we have on i386. > > Yes, except not mounted loopback. > > A native bootloader, kernel, and ramdisk all reside on the native > filesystem. Amiga and mac can *only* be booted this way. > > boot-floppies delivered a tarball which contained all three of these > things for download onto a native partition. I'm not sure I intend to > emulate that, though. > > How about I create a new type called nativehd or something?
With i386's hd-media, only the cdrom iso is loopback mounted, the initrd, kernel, and bootloader can all be on the HD the same way. I think the important thing is to name it something that will make sense to users, since the names are used for directory names. -- see shy jo
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