Re: (Q) initfs and bootable CD's



On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 02:07:54 +0000, Mark Hobley wrote:

Dickie <Hard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'd like to use initfs to boot from a CD without anything being written
to the hard disk drive.
Has anybody used this and made it work ? Login doesn't work as root or
other user. It keeps rejecting me

I would try starting a shell as the initial process to start with or maybe
use some single user scripts which don't require authentication. Once you
can boot the system and get a shell, then I would look at implementing
login.

Regards,

Mark.

Instead of guessing or making things up why not look up the answer?

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=making+bootable+linux+cd&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

This google search took a mere .23 seconds and gives numerous
methods of accomplishing the deed. Only took me 30 seconds or so to
formulate the search and that included firing up the browser...


.



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