[rescue] What to do with those USB "pen" drives...

[Frank Van Damme]

On Saturday 09 August 2003 06:11, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> All I did was create a bootable CD with some tgzs on it, a home-brew
> distribution based on (I think) Slackware, and an IBM PS/2 486/DX2-50 -
> though it would have worked acceptably well on a large selection of x86
> boxen.
>
> It's really rather easy to do.

You wrote a kernel driver to mount tgz files? Or did you uncompress them to a
ramdisk? (That aside, were these machines capable of booting from cdrom?)

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