From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1970 invoked by uid 1002); 2 Jan 2003 22:10:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 7363 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2003 22:10:38 -0000 Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 00:06:55 +0200 From: Martin Schlemmer To: Christian Axelsson Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030103000655.2c0b7425.azarah@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20030102135640.6de07a50.smiler@lanil.mine.nu> References: <20030102135640.6de07a50.smiler@lanil.mine.nu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="m0(=.Dm=0s)qTMKC" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] A few ideas... X-Archives-Salt: c0d13e9b-c429-4e27-8c33-c71645b4d76c X-Archives-Hash: 48223773c351846b722dc6345e928174 --m0(=.Dm=0s)qTMKC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 13:56:40 +0100 Christian Axelsson wrote: > Hi! > > I was sitting and thinking of simplifying the process of having / (and > maybe other partitions) running for a RAM-disk that can be stored on > NFS, cdrom, and maybe even a harddrive (with encrypted fs). > > I've never played around with ramdisks and I wonder how much that > needs to be done to make a little shellscript for gentoo that copies > down / and other selected partitions to a iso or something and > configures the rest of the system to boot from that later on. > Another problem might be updating the image, therefor it would be nice > with a single command to rewrite the whole image :) > > Anyone wanna help me on this as I have time and would like a feature > like that on some of my computers. > > As I said before, it would be nice to have it as a integrated feature > of gentoo, making it alot easier to work with. > Check out the Adelie cluster project at: http://www.cerca.umontreal.ca/hpc/en/projects/adelie/index.html Support for that have been integrated, and they use diskless clusters ... > -- > Christan Axelsson > smiler@lanil.mine.nu > -- Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa --m0(=.Dm=0s)qTMKC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+FLgFqburzKaJYLYRAmSZAKCam6AA69lzZf37q+/4g7F6CyBpeACglpsN OJnlRU0Gv6V/vibNDFVl0as= =MjjI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --m0(=.Dm=0s)qTMKC--