On Sat, 17 May 2003 roberto@redix.it wrote:

> All I want do to is to install netbsd on flash memory and mount root and
> other fs as read only; only fs like /var or /tmp should be writable and I
> need to create ramdisk in memory for those devices (it is a bad things to
> write on flash for tmp files or logs).

I believe you'll need to write to "/dev", too. You can arrange to
rebuild all the devices at boot time.

> And I do not have any swap partition on disk to use the command mount_mfs.
> So I need pure ramdisk.

Lots of folks have reported doing similiar things. You might ask on
tech-embed for details, or review the archives.

Frederick