Hi Larry,
actually im talking to the Bering version, in the LEAF
homepage documentation there is a link there that says
something like this "lrp.c0wz.com - this is a mirror of one of the best
sources of LRP information on the net."
but it was dead link already i believed that it would
point me to the right docs i need. i have also googled
on this topic but to no avail.
The c0wz site is quite dated at this point, but I've still got a mirror running:
http://c0wz2.steinkuehler.net/
by the way what i need to know is how LEAF bering starts from booting up and how does it managed to use RAM instead of the physical storage media and what happens when i backup lrp packages. I have actually used Bering LEAF but dont have firm understanding on how it works behind the scene. and thats what i want to know.
Basically, at startup a ramdisk is created and populated with the contents of all the *.lrp packages (which are simply tar.gz files) configured to load via the LRP= kernel command line (or one of the more recent enhancements, like the lrpkg.cfg file).
When you backup a package, the backup scripts simply make a tar.gz file of all files that belong in a particular package.
Some details of package creation can be found on the LEAF site in the SF Document Manager:
http://sourceforge.net/docman/?group_id=13751
See particularly "How do I create packages?" and "LRP packaging details and limitations" (in section 13).
Your real source for information, however, is the source code. Both the packaging and the initial system generation are done by simple shell scripts, so just open an editor and follow along until you understand as much as you want. The initial system configuration is done by /linuxrc, and the backup scripts are in /usr/sbin, along with the rest of the lrcfg menu scripts.
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