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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This project sounds interesting but I would like to
know how difficult it would be to install it through non-conventional
means.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Currently, I have been able to install debian woody
through the simple "debootstrap" which would give me a base rootfs. All that I
need to do is to put in the right kernel and I have been doing this installation
on the following machines :</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1. my PC which I manually installed GRUB under
win32 which would launch my customized linux kernel using my own initrd with the
debian woody rootfs as a loopback device on ntfs/vfat</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2. my Xbox, very similar to (1), just the kernel
and initrd needs to be changed, the same rootfs is used</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3. colinux, again just the kernel and initrd is
changed, the rootfs is the same.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All I need is took the same rootfs file image and
drop that in. Can I do similar thing to ubuntu ? As you can see from the above
cases, I CANNOT boot a standard CD(floppy) for the installation which
unfortunately is the norm for almost all the linux distro I have seen. In fact,
Microsoft is more advanced in this regard as I can run a win32setup.exe from a
Windows 98 machine without making any floppy/cd and can install XP over the
net.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>thanks for any help in advance and please CC if
possible as I am not on this list, yet.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>