On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Gary <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Fernando Cassia wrote: >> I really really really hate having to burn CDs and DVD-Rs to test new >> linux versions. If I could just download the ISO images to from my >> N800 and then enable some software > Assuming the maemo kernel includes support for ISO9660 and loopback > devices, one > could just 'mount file.iso /path -t iso9660 -o loop'. Someone else here > would have to > confirm or deny if it's supported by the stock kernel. > > q.v. the emelFM2 file manager with IsoMount: > http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=20809 > http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/emelfm2 > http://wardenclyffetower.com/MaemoFiles/emelfm2/EmelInfo.htm > > -Gary Gary: that would be half the story. You´re missing the point, and the most important part of my idea: creating a piece of software on the N800 that takes control of the USB port and impersonates a "USB CD-ROM" device, so you can just mount a Iso9660 image, run the software, and then plug the N800 to a PC and have the PC bios boot from the "USB CD-ROM" when in fact data is being sent from the n800 reading from a iso9660 file on one of the sd cards. In fact, "mounting" the iso9660 on the N800-Linux side is not even needed. What is needed is the code to make the N800 appear to the USB bus as a USB CD-rom, and then read contents from the iso image and send those as cd "blocks" of data down the usb wire. FC _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
