On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:43:25PM +0300, Tim Nelson wrote: > Greetings all- > > I've got some questions about Lenny and running from ramdisk. Hoping someone > can shed some light. ;-) > > <textwall> > I have a very specific Debian Lenny based system I use for communications > (think VoIP and RS232 serial). This installation is very 'pared down', only > the essentials. I currently have an image that I write to new drives/systems > using 'dd'. This works well, however, in some of the places I'm putting these > systems, the power is horrible. After a few hundred power outages, the > filesystems tend to need some TLC or are not recoverable (the underlying > storage hardware, HDD or Flash device are fine). > > So, my thoughts are to move to an installation where the entire OS is > extracted from a tar.gz or img from the storage medium and run from RAM (ala > ramdisk) and the actual storage is mounted R/O or simply not mounted at all. > I understand this is possible but I've yet to find any recent (read Linux > 2.6.x) documentation describing the process of installing a new system as > such, or converting an existing installation to this method, let alone > related to Debian. > > Can anyone provide some pointers or instructions to get me started? I'm > incredibly experienced with Linux, CentOS and Debian in particular, but I'm > severely lacking in this department. > </textwall> > > TLDR: How do I get Debian to run entirely from RAM? > Damn Small Linux (and Knoppix, I think) can do this. In Damn Small Linux, the boot parameter is "toram", if I remember correctly. You might want to look into those systems and see how they do it.
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