On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
>
> > Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> >
> > > The
> > > technique I'm using to run LRP off a HDD root partition is to acutally run
> > > the LRP startup scripts in a chrooted environment, creating a root
> > > environment that is then simply mounted at the next boot (linuxrc is
> > > modified to just exit after loading bootstrap modules if root is set to
> > > something other than the ramdisk).
> >
> > Huh? I don't understand.
> >
> > You and others run just fine off of a MSDOS formatted hard disk to
> > which syslinux has been applied. I've a IDE RAM disk that boots
> > Oxygen right now, and it doesn't need a fancy chrooted environment or
> > anything else.
> >
> > You must get something out of this unusual configuration and I'm just
> > too dense to see it.
>
> Can you say "no ramdisk"?
>
> Let's all say it together... No Ramdisk.
>
> Some people have other plans for ram. The usual response has been "not
> worth it... use a different distro." I think Dave C's patches would be
> inappropriate for such a system, so I tend to think adapting LRP backward
> probably doesn't make sense. However, there was a post awhile back by
> someone who figured out how to run an unpatched kernel with LRP, so it
> may make sense at some point to omit the patches, and make non-ramdisk
> startups a configuration option.
>
Depends on what you're trying to do -- to me the ramdisk is a huge
advantage: system runs from a very fast medium which is just barely
big enough to do the task at hand. Good for security, good for
performance, bad for administrator ease.
--
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: It's what's for dinner!
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