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[Ian Scott <mriscott AT yahoo.co.uk>]

> >
> > You could certainly create a DOS ramdisk and copy fs.img
> > to it, but as soon as you booted Linux the ramdisk would
> > disappear.  AFAIK there is no way for Linux to inherit
> > an existing ramdisk from DOS.
> 
> So, let me see if I have this right. We could have the CD create a ram 
> disk as C:, then create the directory c:\baslin and load the fs.img file 
> into the baslin directory on the ramdisk, then let initfs load fs.img as 
> the loop device. At what point in the process does will the ram drive be 
> lost? 

When you run loadlin, it replaces DOS with linux. Once the initfs and kernel 
are loaded off the DOS filesystem, that filesystem disappears, along with any
ramdisks you may have set up.