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From: wade@nb.rockwell.com (Wade Guthrie)
Subject: Re: 386BSD + LINIX + GNU + X11R5 on CDROM - let us know what you want!
Message-ID: <1992Dec16.190223.3274@nb.rockwell.com>
Sender: wade@nb.rockwell.com (Wade Guthrie)
Organization: Rockwell International
References: <ByM6vo.C8C@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec2.055049.24923@tfs.com> <1992Dec11.225241.1941@nb.rockwell.com> <1992Dec12.055725.23540@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:02:23 GMT
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In article <1992Dec12.055725.23540@netcom.com>, adam@netcom.com (Adam J. Richter) writes:
> In article <whatever> I wrote:
> >The Linux cd-rom drivers may support [the Rockridge extensions]
> >already, but if you don't already
> >HAVE Linux up and running on your system, the point is moot.  I would not
> >like to see the Rockridge extensions, 'cause then I wouldn't be able to 
> >load Linux from the CD on a system that currently has only DOS.

> 	My Linux/GNU/X CD is a counter-example to your claim.  The CD
> uses the Rockridge extensions, but you can install it on a system that
> "has only DOS" or that has no software at all.  This is because the
> distribution includes a boot floppy that boots linux and then mounts
> the CD.

That is one approach that would be fine.

> 	Even on a distribution that did not include a boot floppy,
> the inclusion of Rock Ridge extension information would not make
> it any harder to install.  After all, you can still read a Rockridge
> disk with a system that only understands iso9660, although the filenames
> will appear in iso9660 level 1 (DOS style) or iso9660 level 2 (similar
> to VMS) formats.

I tried to read a SUN CD-ROM (which uses the rockridge extensions) and had
some problems.  The CD-ROM had one file (README -- which I could read
fine) and several directories (all with names longer than 8 characters).  I
could not change into any of the directories, although everything else seemed
fine.  Now, I admit that I may be missing something here.  If I am, and the
people putting the disk together want to do things that way, may I humbly
request that the README on the disk explain the stuff that I should have 
known?

> Installing Linux from a CD that contains only source
> code is essentially the same problem.

Yeah, this is why I would like a binary of the os.


Wade
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