Installing Linux without the boot and root floppies, you have to run loadlin
with the option initrd=color.gz which is a compressed file system of course
Therefore Khader might be right
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 1999 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: [LI] Initrd and Ramdisk
> Hello there,
> Well, thanks for that Sunil.
> Anyway, My idea of Ramdisk is the same as yours. So, I am right there.
> My idea of initrd was that it was a compressed filesystem which was
> necessary for booting. ( I dunno whether that was right ?? I think it is
> wrong)
>
> And coming to your question , I am both as of now.
>
> Regards
> Khader
>
> Syed Khader Vali [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Associate Technical Executive # 91-80-5262355 Extn:2527
> IBM Global Services India (P) Ltd.
>
>
>
> "Sunil Sarat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11/25/99 02:44:52 PM
>
>
> You can try to copy your files to the Ramdisk by doing the following
> mkdir /tmp/ramdisk0
> mkfs -t ext2 /dev/ram0
> mount /dev/ram0 /tmp/ramdisk0
>
> Your ramdisk is available at /tmp/ramdisk0
>
> Initrd is simply a ramdisk that is initialized by the boot loader
before
> the kernel is started. Initial root file system is loaded from initrd.
>
>
> Hope it helps. By the way are you a programmer or a sysadmin?
>
>
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