[TAG] Booting a "Live CD" image without a CD

[John Karns]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Robos wrote:

> Well, if you only want to show her the livecd, how about you use and
> emulator?  Lately I've been using qemu a lot and it works like hell!
> Fabrice Bellard is really a god.

Hmm, that name sounds familiar ...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard

Bellard was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France.  He went to school in Joffre
(Montpellier), where he already created a widely known program, the
executable compressor LZEXE.

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Ahh, that's it.  He must have been all of 17 or 18 years old when he wrote 
that, as I remember it from 1989 or '90.  I think he sold the idea to Phil 
Katz who incorporated it into his product.  It was an algorithm that would 
uncompress a DOS executable, transparent to DOS, after being loaded by the 
program loader, before being executed.  Handy for saving space in the days 
of 40 MB disk drives.

-- 
John Karns