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Story: One Small Feature of Ubuntu 8.04 That Could Make a Very Large ImpactTotal Replies: 6
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Bob_Robertson

Feb 25, 2008
3:45 AM EST 		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
5:13 AM EST 		It is cool, nifty even.
tuxtom

Feb 25, 2008
8:39 AM EST 		Keen
gus3

Feb 25, 2008
9:00 PM EST 		Slackware still has its ZipSlack installation to FAT as well, even providing the "loadlin.zip" in /root.
gus3

Feb 25, 2008
9:01 PM EST 		Sorry, forgot to give the link:

http://www.slackware.com/zipslack/
tuxtom

Feb 25, 2008
9:15 PM EST 		@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
7:58 AM EST 		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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