Re: toram boot option

On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 23:17, jps wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> 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.

I did a hack to run LNX-BBC out of ram.  The cdrom image is loaded 
into ram freeing the CDROM driver for other stuff.  Here are some 
tools to take a 2.1 ISO image and turn it into an image that will 
run from RAM.  There are scripts for inserting a new kernel into the 
ISO image and other misc things:

   http://www.mock.com/bbcmods

jeff