Re: toram boot option

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, jps wrote:

>
> Knoppix and DSL have recently added a "toram" boot option. The CD is
> copied to the RAM file system. This frees up the CD drive for other
> uses, quieter operation, and booting multiple computers from the same
> CD.
>
> I think that this would be a great addition to KNX-BBC.
>

Just as a follow-up and a synopsis of "how" to work things currently:

HEAD now has a run-in-ram-and-free-your-cd-drive option.  At the boot
prompt, specify your framebuffer mode, "rir", and "default" ('2' should
work too), as in:

	4 rir default

for 1024x768 framebuffer, running in ram (freeing the CD), and runlevel
"default".  You can use "rir", "runinram", or "toram" as the option.

If you leave off "default", it's booting into runlevel 5 (custom)for some
reason.  I'm looking into why that's so.

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