I believe WUBI does this somehow. That's ubuntu running on Windows... Jeff On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:12 AM, gregrwm <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote: > once upon a release there was an ability to install linux within an > existing filesystem (eg vfat), without creating a separate partition, > without creating a file to contain a virtual partition, and i don't think > it ran with a ram based root filesystem either, rather it somehow contrived > the extra filesystem data that wasn't provided by the underlying (eg if > vfat) filesystem, and stored all files as files in that filesystem. does > anyone know the terminology for this, and/or what distros/releases/versions > can/could do it? > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- Jeff Chapin President, CedarLug, retired President, UNIPC, "I'll get around to it" President, UNI Scuba Club Senator, NISG, retired -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140311/71e6bf52/attachment.html>