Under preferences you can turn off warn if no source or changes file.  
This can be done by a startup script you indicate to the VM at startup  
time, or of course when you
package up an image.

Technically when the VM starts up it hunts for and finds the image to  
use (lot of choice how that happens).
The important thing here is that it opens the image read-only, reads  
the entire file into a memory block, closes it. and then starts the  
process of fixing up oops endian & offset issues.

I will note that Windows users running from a CD can open files read or  
write, Windows apparently lies about the ability to write. Other  
operating system fail the open request.
Since you are using Linux this isn't an issue.  However people building  
CDs for linux/windows/mac should be aware of this issue if they only  
test on windows.


This won't work on operation systems that ensure open a file for write  
on a read-only system is a failure condition.
On Mar 12, 2005, at 8:59 AM, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We are preparing the next freeduc-cd release  
> (http://www.ofset.org/freeduc-cd) which is a knoppix based  
> distribution dedicated for education.
> We want to include Squeak in this release, however because of the  
> nature of this system, we will need the VM Squeak to run over  
> read-only .image and .change. It looks like Squeak can handle it, and  
> it only complains at start up.
>
> Beside not been able to save the image, are there some traps behind?
>
> Hilaire Fernandes
>
> --  
> http://www.ofset.org/petition
> Pétition de soutien au developpement
> de logiciels libres pour l'education.
>
>
>
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