Re: run from ram

[Richard Nelson <unixabg@gmail.com>]

Greetings,

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Jan Seynaeve<jan.seynaeve@telenet.be> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was looking for some system that could easily be build onto Compact Flash
> and came on debian live. I've been able to create an img with the ld-helper
> stuff, so that's ok.
> Now, I'm specificaly looking for something minimal that could run entirely
> from RAM, and as the debian-live image is so "configurable" it would be very
> nice to use this one.
>

See man live-initramfs:

toram
           Adding this parameter, live-initramfs will try to copy the
whole read-only media to the computer’s RAM before mounting the root
filesystem.
           This could need a lot of ram, according to the space used
by the read-only media.

> However, I don't seem to find any info on the exact booting / filesystem of
> the this live-image. Would anybody have some pointers for me?
> If I'm totaly off here, alternatives are always welcome!
>
> Regards,
> JaSeyN
>
>
>
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