Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Adam J. Richter" <> | Date | Mon, 30 Oct 2000 00:39:37 -0800 | Subject | Re: / on ramfs, possible? |
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Anders Eriksson <aer-list@mailandnews.com> writes: >I want my / to be a ramfs filesystem. I intend to populate it from an >initrd image, and then remount / as the ramfs filesystem. Is that at >all possible? The way I see it the kernel requires / on a device >(major,minor) or nfs. > >Am I out of luck using ramfs as /? If it's easy to fix, how do I fix it?
We do that right now with cramfs. You might want to examine ftp://ftp.yggdrasil.com/pub/dist/booting/make-ramdisk-0.19.tar.gz.
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