what is busybox anyway? I've heard it mentioned here a couple of times...

it's not really that complicated of a hack.. you need a statically compiled cp and mount(util-linux and sh-utils, respectively). I just put these into a directory of their own on the CD.

then you have to change some stuff in linuxrc from miniroot.. mainly putting the ramdisk creation ABOVE where is inserts the cloop module. set the ramsize to something statically and take out all the unnecessary stuff there. Then, before it inserts the module, copy the image onto the ramdisk, and make sure to tell the module that when you load it.

And that's all I did.. didn't change the cloop image except for ripping stuff out of it.