Uncompressed root fs to ramdisk.

[Kyle Harris]

Ralph,

Please see below.

Ralph Stickley wrote:

> Not sure about the minigetty thing.  I think the /dev/tty things (are they
> files , pipes ? does anybody know ?? ) have to be in R/W partition. I just
> linked to my ram disk:

/dev/xxx are special "files" called nodes. It provides a mechanism for
accessing devices through a major and minor number.

> 
> mount /dev/ram /var
> /tmp -> /var
> /dev/tty0 -> /tmp/tty0
> ...
>

I like this idea of having /dev in the ramdisk. But how does this work
since you need /dev/ram in order to create and mount /var? And the
kernel wants a console early in the boot sequence.

> Where /tmp is a link to the /var mount point for the ram disk. That might help
> ?
> 
> Do you create more than one ramdisk ? How do you specify the size of your ram
> disk ?

for a 2 MB disk, I use mke2fs -m0 /dev/ram0 2048

Kyle.
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