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Date: | Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:27:20 +0100 |
From: | Ignazio Di Napoli <neclepsio AT gmail DOT com> |
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joekrahn wrote: > An ISO-9660 image is sort of like a tar file, but with some extra overhead. > It sounds like you are trying to do something like Knoppix. They use a > compressed read-only filesystem for the base image, combined with a special > read/write filesystem (based on symlinks, I think) that holds actual file > data only for changed files. It's what I would like. > Doing this in Windows would not be easy. There are some programs around that > mount ISO images as a virtual filesystem. But, if you have to install extra > support software, what is the point of installing Cygwin on an SD card? If > you want a portable Cygwin, why not put most of it onto a CD? Because a SD card is smaller and read/write. Mounting a CD ISO copied on the SD would also be possible, but as you said it would require the installation of software. I though it could be possible to manage the whole thing in a simpler way (maybe with a port of some software that many live distribution like Knoppix use). Thank you Ignazio -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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