Hi Thanks for your responses. The "suspend and always resume without overwriting" is done by software suspend, with no problem. It is the difficulty of resuming the writeable parts of the filesystem (/var and /tmp) each time from an image which I am not sure about.
I am thinking about adding a script to the rc2.d (or other runlevel) which does: cat /ramdisks/var.img > /dev/ram1 mount /dev/ram1 /var and cat /ramdisks/tmp.img > /dev/ram2 mount /dev/ram2 /tmp ...would that do the job? Maybe it is simpler than I thought :-/ Simon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mattia Dongili Sent: 04 October 2005 12:10 To: 'debian-devel@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: Developing a kiosk type system - advice needed On Tue, October 4, 2005 1:04 pm, Petter Reinholdtsen said: > [Simon Guerrero] >> I am developing a "kiosk" type of system, where I want to a) boot up >> fast >> and b) be able to switch off and back on and restart with a clean image. > > Part a is a bit tricky, but should be solvable. Part b sounds like a about a) an partly b): would suspending (S4) to a swap file once and the always resume from that without overwriting it reach the goal? Note: never tried it. -- mattia :wq! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses on behalf of Sungard Vivista by MessageLabs. http://www.messagelabs.com or Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For further information http://www.sungard.com/vivista ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]