Seems like you have a lot of irons in the fire, all things considered.
The reason why I ask is because I believe that cloop files cannot be read from an ntfs partition for some reason and if squashfs files CAN be read from an NTFS partition then it makes it possible to run a DSL poorman's install from a C:\KNOPPIX on a Win2000/XP computer that has no FAT partitons. It also makes *.uci type extensions mountable when they are stored on an NTFS partition.I did not know that cloops couldn't be loaded from ntfs partitions.
At what point in boot are we talking here? (it's a simple maneuver to toss ntfs.o in the minirt and toss an insmod for it just above the cloop.o load. It would have to be done similarly for squashfs.o as well)Funny thing. I no longer have a WinXP machine with which to test that.
Quote (Fordi @ Jan. 03 2005,14:25)
Funny thing. I no longer have a WinXP machine with which to test that.
This is a bad thing for development...
Go beat up your little brother and steal his!
Brian AwPhuchI think that this is true but I don't remember if I every tested cloop & ntfs together. I'll have to try it out to confirm.
I definately remember reading something to this effect, like this:
I do know that you can boot the KNOPPIX compressed image from an NTFS partition, but not as C:\KNOPPIX
Instead, you save the entire *.iso file to your ntfs partition.
Then, upon bootup, Knoppix will do a NTFS -> ISO file system -> cloop mount which somehow works even though a NTFS -> direct cloop mount does not work.