[syslinux] Using MTOOLS in place of loopback mounting

[Seth David Schoen]

Seth David Schoen writes:

> I am trying to build a distribution without having to be root.  The
> SYSLINUX installer typically needs root to do loopback mounting, but
> if you have MTOOLS, you can use that instead.  This seems to work so
> far:

We have now successfully booted an mcopy/dd-built SYSLINUX floppy, and
exercised other features of SYSLINUX.  (Now, if only somebody had a
really good user-space ext2fs writer.)

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