Re: [ps2hacking-devel] Who is running this show?

[M. R. B. <mr...@0x...>]

* now3d <n3...@an...> on Mon, Jan 07, 2002:

>=20
> Booting it is the problem here, sony have their equivelent of LILO which
> starts the install or starts from HDD if already installed. So assuming
> you buy your own HDD/eth0 combo you would still need to borrow the DVD
> to install and then make a boot disk of your own.
>=20
> People have made working boot disks from backing up their own PS2 Linux
> boot disk and missing off the rpms etc, but its not really useful to
> have a readonly linux distribution is it?=20
>=20

Ever heard of NFS?  It's a wonderful filesystem that lets you treat a
network share as a root device :P </cynicism>.

M. R.