[Bootcd-user] Is there a way to squeeze the entire ISO intomemory?

Mark Clarkson markjclarkson@btinternet.com
Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:31:22 +0000


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!