Re: fdutils.

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0111150027200.3058-100000@Consulate.UFP.CX>
By author:    Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.cx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> As I see it, there are the following options available:
> 
>  1. Insist that those using the rescue CD have two CD drives.
> 
>     In my book, that's a non-starter, so 'nuff said).
> 
>  2. Prohibit access to the CD drive for anything other than the
>     rescue CD.
> 
>  3. Copy the contents of the CD into a ramdisk, then run from
>     the ramdisk.
> 
>     If the user has enough RAM, maybe, but if not...
> 
>  4. Provide a "Virtual CD Drive" on single CD drive systems
>     (similar to the way drive B: on MS-DOS 2.00 and later is a
>     virtual floppy drive on single floppy systems).
> 
>     I'm not sure how this would work in practice, but it could
>     be done, I'm sure.
> 

All of this is why different rescue-CD distributions take different
approaches... as well as those that use other means such as floppy- or
network-booting.

One size doesn't necessarily fit all, and that's just fine.

	-hpa
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