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On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Monday 04 Jul 2011 15:48:06 Joshua Murphy wrote: |
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>> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>> > On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 12:12:03 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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>> >> > > o - Do live CDs actually mount filesystems on HDDs? |
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>> >> > |
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>> >> > Only when you ask them to. |
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>> >> |
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>> >> I'm stupid. Of _course_ a live CD can't mount HDD filesystems at boot. |
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>> >> To do this it would need /etc/fstab, for which it would need to be told |
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>> >> the root partition. A live CD doesn't get this. |
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>> > |
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>> > A live CD can mount partitions automatically at boot, some do. all it |
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>> > needs to do is scan the disk partition tables, create the mount points |
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>> > and mount them. |
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>> > Knoppix has been doing the first two for years, and writing the details |
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>> > to /etc/fstab to allow the user to mount them easily. |
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>> > -- |
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>> > Neil Bothwick |
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>> > |
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>> > A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard. |
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>> And to further complicate it, many also use a similar technique for |
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>> finding themselves, mounting one filesystem after another until they |
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>> find some distinct marker file to identify where to find the rest of |
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>> their data. Others auto-mount and poke around for auto-loading of |
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>> extensions unless such features are disabled by a boot-time option. |
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> I've only come across LiveCDs which scan the drive and create mount points - |
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> but not mount any device unless explicitly asked to do so by the user. |
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> However, I wouldn't be surprised if some more recent installation CDs go |
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> further than that, as Joshua claims. |
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> Joshua, which LiveCDs behave in the way you describe by automounting |
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> partitions and searching fs? |
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> Regards, |
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> Mick |
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I haven't seen any install cds that do that, but DSL and, if I recall, |
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TinyCore/MicroCore look for extensions in a default path on the local |
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filesystems. One thing I'm fairly sure on, though, is that without the |
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"-f" flag, mount won't take the risk on an unclean NTFS, and instead |
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just tosses an "are you sure?" message, which would make me presume |
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even those livecds that do look for extensions wouldn't risk the |
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damage there. |
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Poison [BLX] |
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Joshua M. Murphy |
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