<P><b>What does the 2 disk compression method do?</b></P>
<P>gBootRoot creates a boot disk with lilo, a kernel and an initrd image. The
<P>This Boot Method creates a boot disk with lilo, a kernel and an initrd
image. The
initrd script mounts another root disk with a compressed (gzip or bzip2)
initrd script mounts another root disk with a compressed (gzip or bzip2)
filesystem.</P>
filesystem.</P>
<P>The root filesystem isn't made by this program, but there lots of compressed
filesytems out there to use (see rest of FAQ). This program is patterned
after mkrboot, but unlike mkrboot it creates an unique bootdisk and a
separate root disk.</P>
<P><b>What's the advantage of using this program?</b></P>
<P><b>What's the advantage of using this program?</b></P>
<P>You can use a bzip2 compressed filesystem, this program is easy to use, and it provides a framework showing a simple initrd method which you can freely
<P>You can use a bzip2 compressed filesystem, this program is easy to use, and it provides a framework showing a simple initrd method which you can freely
@ -308,6 +303,11 @@ modify. I wrote this program as an extension to BootRoot which was
as a solution to help oster at EE (www.experts-exchange.com) create separate
as a solution to help oster at EE (www.experts-exchange.com) create separate
boot and root floppies for an emergency system for his customers.</P>
boot and root floppies for an emergency system for his customers.</P>
<P><Ahref="./bootroot.html">BootRoot</A>
was the original program, but it was decided that a GUI approach
provided the user much more versatility and power in creating distributions.
</P>
<P>If you make a cool change to this program, or if this program helps you I'd love to know, that's better than receiving pizza. :)</P>
<P>If you make a cool change to this program, or if this program helps you I'd love to know, that's better than receiving pizza. :)</P>