I could easily be wrong about WUBI. I have never actually used it, but I, for some reason, had the impression that it used the same file system, and not a disk image... Using a disk image is much less impressive... On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Michael Moore <stuporglue at gmail.com>wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Jeff Chapin <chapinjeff at gmail.com>wrote: > >> I believe WUBI does this somehow. That's ubuntu running on Windows... >> Jeff >> > > I was under the impression that WUBI installed most of Linux to a disk > image within Windows, with just enough outside of Windows to boot from the > image. > > I might be wrong though, I only used WUBI once or twice. > > 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? >>> >> > I don't know if you're looking this far back, but I used to have to use > Loadlin (http://www.linux.sh/loadlin.html) to boot Linux on old > computers. You installed Linux along side DOS, booted DOS and then ran > LINUX.BAT to boot Linux. > > On old Macs you could use http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/bootx/ to > boot Linux from within Mac OS, but it required a separate partition for the > Linux files. > > -- > Michael Moore > > _______________________________________________ > 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/d404d0b9/attachment.html>