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On Wednesday 20 August 2008 14:14:24 Natanael Copa wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 13:37 +0300, Jan Klod wrote: |
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> > Hello, |
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> > I am interested in setting up distro in RAM for file server, but the |
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> > thing is: I only have 1GB of RAM (max in board). Since fileserver really |
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> > doesn't require much of software, I was consider asking this question: |
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> > can Tin Hat help here? |
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> > How booting is done? |
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> > How back-synchronization happens (from RAM to backup)? Only manually by |
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> > copying? |
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> > Hope you give some advices, |
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> If you dont need xorg you might want to take a look at alpine linux, |
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> distro based on gentoo hardened with uclibc/busybox. It is designed to |
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> run firewalls and vpns from RAM but can also be used for ISCSI, vserver |
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> hosts, samba/nfs and others. |
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> during boot it installs all the needed packages to RAM. There is a local |
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> backup utility that helps to backup your /etc to USB memory together |
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> with the list of installed packages so get your configuration back. |
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> http://alpinelinux.org |
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> -nc |
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Thank you Natanael, but, before I start long reading about it, what could be |
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memory requirements for alpine and is it a real hardened gentoo with portage |
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accessible or, if not, how all the install / compiling is done there? |
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Jan |