Is there a howto expleining how to put whole arch system into ramdisk?

marwooj · 2009-08-21 20:31:33

I could not find it

Last edited by marwooj (2009-08-23 19:21:36)

pizmooz · 2009-08-21 20:49:10

do you want any information to be persistent across reboots?

deej · 2009-08-21 20:51:15

[ Pre-empting ] Yes :>}

Deej, hi-jacking

Gen2ly · 2009-08-21 23:19:18

Never tried it for a regular install, but I remember the Gentoo LiveCD had a kernel line parameter called "docache" that would load the entire contents of the CD into memory. Possible that this would work in a normal install??

majiq · 2009-08-21 23:52:44

I'm going to say that some combination of the following four URLs should help.

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=77392
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ramdisk
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Twe … _boot_time
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tun … _for_Speed
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=30773

Last edited by majiq (2009-08-21 23:53:03)

LeoSolaris · 2009-08-22 17:28:10

you could also try asking about it over on the Puppy forums. Puppy does exactly that, so I am sure they could easily handle your question.

marwooj · 2009-08-23 19:27:43

pizmooz wrote:

do you want any information to be persistent across reboots?

just a few, hostapd conf file, any kind of dhcp server, iptables, nothing more, I want to get rid of of my hd, and boot from fd/usb/cd
something like pendrive with one small fat partition to edit would be grate

marwooj · 2009-08-23 19:30:00

LeoSolaris wrote:

you could also try asking about it over on the Puppy forums. Puppy does exactly that, so I am sure they could easily handle your question.

would love like to stick with arch, looks nice, I fed up with gentoo, and alll debianoidal ones

lilsirecho · 2009-08-23 19:39:01

Perhaps if you download and install Faunos it will give you some ideas for your system. It runs in ram from a USB flash device.

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Is there a howto expleining how to put whole arch system into ramdisk?

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