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[Bruce M Beach]

     Hello all;

     Thanks for the various scripts. I will use them if I have
     to but the problem is that I am avoiding the use of an
     initrd if I can. What I do is have isolinux boot the
     kernel with the following config line
 
     APPEND root=/dev/scd0 ro

     Hmmmm..... Now that I think of it there is no problem.

     Well let me go on anyway. Maybe this is what Martijn Bakker
     was saying. Okay consider the case where I don't use scsi-emulation
     So I use in the config file

     APPEND root=/dev/hdd  (say)

     Isolinux passes control to the kernel which mounts the CD
     It then executes init from the CD which does its thing, in
     particular on my setup executes /etc/rc.d/rc.S which
     near the begining has a line

     mount -n -t tmpfs /dev/shm /tmpfs

     which gives me a ramdisk. I set up a handful of symbolic links
     i.e. tmp->/tmpfs/tmp etc.
     and I'm done. gcc, xwindows and anything else runs fine.

     Now of course I can't execute any of the suggested scripts in
     the above setup because to find the scripts the CD has to be
     mounted first and in general it could be anywhere C:, D: etc.
     Now it seems to me that in the case of the scsi emulation
     it will simply mount the first CD that it finds and for me
     that is satisfactory since is likely to be the case 99% of
     time. In the case of an IDE type CD setup, what interested me
     was the fact that isolinux actually already knows the drive
     number and if it could be persuaded to pass the information
     to the kernel for mounting that would be a fairly simple and
     useful solution.

     Bruce