From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 26 12:58:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAEF916A416 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 12:58:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars.udo@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5018743D64 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 12:57:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lars.udo@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id x37so1744274nfc for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:58:22 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=g8VlE1Q6LO2zqEtpea6KTNAeiY4NRIdjwxxOjMN0RvDuUngy52FAeGOQPiWj87ToF+dTuEc7i0shTkvVBSa0jcV4+nNKO1S/hifeI3DVdxVrFwI409ssSsEt/1fczpgTedlFZ9c389XR2Q4QyVPdcPnSI+s3uRLxTLkrssbGQVo= Received: by 10.78.204.20 with SMTP id b20mr12243782hug.1164545901642; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:58:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.165.1 with HTTP; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:58:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2fef08390611260458y60040904gb0fa5e05aefba5d9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 14:58:21 +0200 From: "Lars Udo" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Mini-Freebsd system on ram, to reduce noise? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 12:58:25 -0000 Hello, fellow FreeBSD-users. I'm planning to build MiniBSD (from freebsd) with, these instructions: https://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html i'v red it few times and came to realize, that if i could get that small FreeBSD why wouldnt i run it in RAM? I have Intel 333 Mhz / 256 sdram / 10Gb hd.. and few nics. i could boot up system and then move it into ram, lets say that i'd create 128 Mb size of memorydisk in ram. All data will be wiped during reboot, but i'll keep the original image on harddisk, which will shutdown until all system-files are moved into RAM.. Is this anyway possible? It would reduce noise-level here in my livingroom, so thats all i need, beside NAT/Firewall :) all suggestions are considered, but monowall or picobsd are no options, because i need to learn it myself rather than "go'n buy & setup" how do i create memorybased filesystem? ---------------------------------------- mdconfig -t malloc -s 128m -u 5 newfs -U /dev/md5 mount /dev/md5 / dd if=/mnt/ad0 of=/ umount /mnt/ad0 (drop the harddisk) -------------------------------------- something like that? thanks, for reading :) Greetings Lars ----------------------------------------------- | Anonymous said... | so what. | why is glory in the real world better than the glory in a fake one? | evolution made us to survive, not to live. -----------------------------------------------------