It's 1999 all over again, and this is a good thing.
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| Bob_Robertson Feb 25, 2008 4:45 AM EDT |
So the loop-back "in windows" install has returned! I actually kept a copy of Dragon Linux, which would not do it on NTFS, only FAT. Bully for Ubuntu! |
| ColonelPanik Feb 25, 2008 6:13 AM EDT |
It is cool, nifty even. |
| tuxtom Feb 25, 2008 9:39 AM EDT |
Keen |
| gus3 Feb 25, 2008 10:00 PM EDT |
Slackware still has its ZipSlack installation to FAT as well, even providing the "loadlin.zip" in /root. |
| gus3 Feb 25, 2008 10:01 PM EDT |
Sorry, forgot to give the link: http://www.slackware.com/zipslack/ |
| tuxtom Feb 25, 2008 10:15 PM EDT |
@Gus: Sadly, this feature is of little use in modern, everyday computing. Most Windows folks have NTFS, and even those that might have extra FAT partitions have likely run into performance and file size limitations in this age of multimedia and moved onto NTFS. |
| techiem2 Feb 26, 2008 8:58 AM EDT |
Man, I remember using loadlin with slack.... Suse used to have the livecd setup to make a loopback file on the local machine to store data and settings. Was an interesting setup. |
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