[syslinux] How to boot a compressed CD-ROM image from disk

[Mr Tyrese]

If my understanding is correct, then this method says that it's
possible to boot an ISO from the network??


On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:36:20 +0100, Blaauw,Bernd B.
<B.Blaauw at student.fontys.nl> wrote:
> 1) MBR
> 2) Syslinux bootsector
> 3) Syslinux (syslinux, isolinux, pxelinux, extlinux) + configuration file
> 4) Linux (kernel) + initrd
> 5) Initrd loads compressed ISO (zisofs filesystem)
> 6) You're done!
> 
> Classic way:
> A) Create 1GB..2GB FAT16 partition
> B) Format C:
> C) Syslinux C:
> D) Copy Knoppix files to C: (I guess files KNOPPIX, KERNEL26, MINIRT26.GZ)
> E) Create syslinux.cfg file
> 
> label knoppix
> kernel kernel26
> append ................
> 
> for '...........' see the isolinux.cfg on your Knoppix CD/DVD. It's a very long commandline.
> 
> Syslinux 3.00 should allow not only FAT16, but also FAT32 and ext2fs.
> 
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