From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 3 13:16:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw2.roguewave.com (fw2.roguewave.com [208.151.233.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B35781599E for ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:16:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from carey@roguewave.com) Received: by fw2.roguewave.com; id VAA12949; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 21:19:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cvo1.cvo.roguewave.com(10.68.4.36) via SMTP by hub.FreeBSD.ORG, id smtpd012926; Thu Jun 3 21:19:25 1999 Received: by cvo1.cvo.roguewave.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) id ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:17:38 -0700 Message-ID: From: Woody Carey To: "'Barak Enat'" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: ramdisk for freebsd Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:17:37 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How about PicoBSD for this? http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ > > Hi All, > > I'm interested in using freebsd in an embedded system, where the only > storage device > is a small flash. > Is there a feature for freebsd that during boot, a compresses > filesystem is > extracted > into ramdisk, so further operation is done completely whithin > the ramdisk? > (that is > that the root filesystem is mounted to the ramdisk - I'm not > talking about > making /tmp > an MFS) > > I know such feature exist in BSDI (and maybe Linux), but > couldn't locate > anything like > that for freebsd by searching the web. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message