> Well, while we're at it, someone with a CD burner should figure out how to
> make one bootable.  I'm going to guess that the major stumbling block on
> doing this is NOT installing bootblocks but in making a memory-based root
> filesystem for handling the installation of a miniroot; MFS would be a
> good candidate for that, and a RWOD would be a good candidate for testing
> bootable media:

I can think of no good reason (i.e. a reason that would require more
than a VSMOP to fix) that the root file system 'needs' to be writable
for the install process.

All you should need is _a_ writable partition, and, if that's the
case, MFS will do the job quite nicely.


In my opinion, the majority of the problem with making bootable
CD-ROMs would indeed be the boot blocks.  I don't know enough about
CD-ROMs to know if one could e.g. put seperate boot blocks in multiple
places on them, but even if that's possible my guess is that most
machines' native firmware wouldn't actually work properly with them.



cgd