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From: Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch>
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Subject: Re: ramdisk howto???
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On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:14:21AM -0400, romero3000@romero3000.com wrote:
> I want to to know how to create a ram file system for /var and /tmp so
> that i can boot from flash memory and mount those two file systems on
> ramfs. I've looked for howto's online but haven't found anything. any
> suggestions????

have a look at http://neon1.net

the minibsd part is what you are looking for.