On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Jeff Chapin <chapinjeff at gmail.com> wrote: > I believe WUBI does this somehow. That's ubuntu running on Windows... > Jeff > I was under the impression that WUBI installed most of Linux to a disk image within Windows, with just enough outside of Windows to boot from the image. I might be wrong though, I only used WUBI once or twice. On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:12 AM, gregrwm <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote: > >> once upon a release there was an ability to install linux within an >> existing filesystem (eg vfat), without creating a separate partition, >> without creating a file to contain a virtual partition, and i don't think >> it ran with a ram based root filesystem either, rather it somehow contrived >> the extra filesystem data that wasn't provided by the underlying (eg if >> vfat) filesystem, and stored all files as files in that filesystem. does >> anyone know the terminology for this, and/or what distros/releases/versions >> can/could do it? >> > I don't know if you're looking this far back, but I used to have to use Loadlin (http://www.linux.sh/loadlin.html) to boot Linux on old computers. You installed Linux along side DOS, booted DOS and then ran LINUX.BAT to boot Linux. On old Macs you could use http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/bootx/ to boot Linux from within Mac OS, but it required a separate partition for the Linux files. -- Michael Moore -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140311/1a96c76f/attachment.html>