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On 10:21 Sat 31 Jan , basile wrote: |
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> We have written a series of scripts to "ramify" a system. There are |
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> two versions: A) take an OS bound to the hard drive and build an ISO |
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> image which will boot and put the system totally into tmpfs, B) take a |
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> system which is already "ramified" and build an ISO which will again |
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> boot purely into RAM, ie build a snapshot. A user could use scprits |
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> A to ramify a custom built system and maintain it in ram with scripts |
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> B. Also, Gentoo "releases" could be distributed already ramified. |
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Great to hear from you! Have you seen the 'docache' kernel parameter? It |
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used to stick the LiveCD into RAM -- I haven't used it lately but I |
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assume it's still around. I'd think it would be straightforward to apply |
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the same feature to an installed Gentoo system. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com |
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