pearpc live cd

[thebear]

i was wondering if you made a live cd of pearpc and ran it from just dos would it run faster or if i just had dos and pearpc with my hd image would it run a lot faster then if windows is running with it.

[Alex]

You can't run PearPC in DOS. It relies on the Windows GUI

[thebear]

so if you would do a small linux install with like small damn linux would it run better.

[Alex]

Yes, that could work

[bot47]

The problems about providing a live cd are
1st) The licensing of the client os (does not apply if we would use linux)
2nd) As far as I know we need write access to the HD Images and no RAM disk would be large enough to fit the whole system.

[Guru3]

I think a small linux distro would be entirely possible.

[thebear]

i was thinking the image could still be on your hd but the live cd would run a small linux and pearpc. you would just run the image from the drive itself. i was just wondering if this would then make it run a little faster. because your running just the min of linux and dont have to double os you drive.

[CannotResolveSymbol]

That would work fine-- if you were using a FAT32 drive. Unfortunately, if you're running NT/2000/XP, your drive is formatted with NTFS, which Linux can't write to.

[thebear]

what if you would use the The Linux NTFS Driver. most distro's have it right out of the box. and would there be a way to maybe use the compression that some live cd's use and fit the os, pear, and your image on the same disc and then it would uncompress the files when it starts up. useing maybe a cache on the local hardrive. i know you wouldnt be able to save to it but you would already have the apps you already need saved in the image file that you put on the cd. and the cache would would be writable. it would be a useful tool to show someone what osx looks and feels like. somewhat slow for now.

[CannotResolveSymbol]

what if you would use the The Linux NTFS Driver. most distro's have it right out of the box. and would there be a way to maybe use the compression that some live cd's use and fit the os, pear, and your image on the same disc and then it would uncompress the files when it starts up. useing maybe a cache on the local hardrive. i know you wouldnt be able to save to it but you would already have the apps you already need saved in the image file that you put on the cd. and the cache would would be writable. it would be a useful tool to show someone what osx looks and feels like. somewhat slow for now.

Linux-NTFS read support is stable. Write support is not, and has a very good chance of mutilating your drive, and thus your windows install. You have to be able to write to the image for Mac OS to work, so mounting it read-only is not an option.

To have PearPC write to a cache on the hard drive would also require a FAT32 or linux (any of ext2/3, reiserfs, etc.) formatted drive, plus it would require recoding pearpc to dynamically patch the image in memory and write changes to the cache on disk.