Sounds like that would be better. This solution of mine really just lets penguinbaits cdrom (iso9660) file system driver do all the heavy lifting work with slinging around the file system though.

Sounds like MO files use SquashFS which i dont think we have a driver compiled for maemo yet. It also supports unionfs which qwerty compiled which would be better than chroot for most situations other than debian/kde apps.

Definately worth looking into though since the iso's are not compressed on fat like they are on internal filesystem.

I added some more of my apps to the iso directory. I now have 'autorunnable' iso files for :
quake
quake2
hexen2
gtk-gnutella
descent2

The zipped versions are just zipped up copies of the iso... you dont need both... now if only we had squashfs i wouldnt need both

I'm kind of new to linux filesystems so if theres a simpler solution like just mounting a tar.gz somehow with execute permissions, let me know.