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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Advice regarding backporting to Gentoo from Tin
From:       Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2009-01-31 18:28:17
Message-ID: 20090131182817.GD7480 () hermes
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On 10:21 Sat 31 Jan     , basile wrote:
> We have written a series of scripts to "ramify" a system.  There are
> two versions: A) take an OS bound to the hard drive and build an ISO
> image which will boot and put the system totally into tmpfs, B) take a
> system which is already "ramified" and build an ISO which will again
> boot purely into RAM, ie build a snapshot.   A user could use scprits
> A to ramify a custom built system and maintain it in ram with scripts
> B.  Also, Gentoo "releases" could be distributed already ramified.

Great to hear from you! Have you seen the 'docache' kernel parameter? It 
used to stick the LiveCD into RAM -- I haven't used it lately but I 
assume it's still around. I'd think it would be straightforward to apply 
the same feature to an installed Gentoo system.

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com

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