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From: "Aditya Godbole" <aag.lists@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ramdisk support
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On 11/15/06, Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
> Aditya Godbole wrote:
>  > Is there any ramdisk support in freebsd, as there is in netbsd?
>  > What are the alternatives if I want to mount a root filesytem from ram?
>
> You mean a diskless setup?  I think there's a detailed
> description of diskless setups in the FreeBSD Handbook.
> You might also want to look at the diskless(8) manpage.
>

Hi,

I was looking for something like initrd support of Linux or the
mdsetimage of NetBSD.
I have no disc or network card support for my hardware at the moment.
--
aditya