[coLinux-devel] conoppix

[Digital I. Inc. <ok...@di...>]

I have not read whole thread (it is long!),
but if what you focus is about writing a loop back partition,
I already did it on conoppix.

it can write loop back partition on NTFS.
and probably next version of KNOPPIX has "captive",
which loads genie NTFS.dll on Linux from c:/windows/system32,
so you can write real NTFS, if you have real Windows installed on your C:.

and I have a plan to add a function which is writing read-only partion.
there are two techs for it - COW and Union FS.
I dont decided to which tech to use yet, but anyway,
I will add it in the near future.

                  --- Okajima.



>
>>> follow the standard Gentoo bootstrap instructions, but instead of
>>> creating a
>>> raw filesystem partition, install to a loopback device which points to
>>> your
>>> windows filesystem.
>>>
>>> For example, it is possible to use Linux's built in NTFS "write" support
>> ...
>>> o Point the coLinux XML file at your ext3/gentoo install
>>>
>
>be shure to write only inside an already created loopback file and this
>file should not be a sparce file. Linux can create errors in the
>filesystem if creating a file or deleting it or changing it's size
>
>chris
>
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