Re: Is there a way to squeeze the entire ISO intomemory?
Mark Clarkson <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:31:22 +0000
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No problem. Glad you found the right tool :) On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 05:17, thomas pinkerton wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply Mark, > > Just in case anyone else ever wants to do this, I got it to work just now > with the mindi project (a cousin of mondo) > > http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/mindi/ > > It basically sucks down all of the necessary packages off your distro that > are necessary for the tols you list in a config file and creates an ISO. It > smartly uses ldd to dynamically fiure out dependencies and what-not. The > only pain in the ass is that it is unfortunately not sentient and can't > figure out, you gtta manually do that yourself. > > Like bootcd, I got it to work with no hassle out of the box. I got an > entire bootable CD with the tools I needed that loaded itself entirely in a > ramdrive in under 25 megs!