Subject: Re: Ramdisks, nfs etc.
To: Larry Colen <lrc@recourse.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/03/2001 21:31:17
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:22:05PM -0800, Larry Colen wrote:
> Here is what I want to do:
> 
> I want to boot off of a CD ROM into a ramdisk.
> I then want to nfs mount another drive with various software which I
> may either want to run from there, or copy down to the ramdisk.
> 
> I have found a little info at
> http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/bootcd.html
> and
> http://www.mclink.it/personal/MG2508/nbsdeng/chap-misc.html
> 
> But I haven't found any good documentation on setting up and using a
> ramdrive. Can anyone point me to some good clues?

Look at the INSTALL kernel (which is on the boot floppies), they're using
a ramdisk.
The build infrastructure is in src/distrib/i386/floppies

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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