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> I cooked up this idea of creating a dummy file (dd), formatting it into a file system, mounting it as a loopback device and deb-bootstrapping it. This has be
by goodpoint 4y ago
> I cooked up this idea of creating a dummy file (dd), formatting it into a file system, mounting it as a loopback device and deb-bootstrapping it.
This has been used for 2 decades. It's extremely common for embedded systems.
- noufalibrahim 4y agoI have very little embedded experience. I think I got the general approach from a python script shipped with Ubuntu to create bootable thumb drives but I might be misremembering.