Re: Making a localized, educational live-usb version of Netbsd? Possible, and is worth it?

On Apr 3, 2014, at 1:22 PM, Ottavio Caruso wrote:

> On 3 April 2014 19:10, Christos Zoulas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> | I'd like to have something in ramdisk or /tmpfs rather that a  
>> full system.
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>> I don't understand that. Meaning build the image in ramdisk?
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> To make myself clear: imagine Knoppix, but built on Netbsd.
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> Ottavio

I've been following this thread for a bit...
So, you want to emulate Knoppix?
Sounds like might want to use virtual disks (with compression), so  
checkout vnconfig ,
and union_mounts, so scripts, and users can make changes -- thumb  
drives always seems to write
about half as fast as they read .. ( man 8 mount_union ) , and use  
swap files instead of a b slice.
vndcompress(8) makes a cloop2 out of your .fs or file system image  
file.  I made a boot floppy --
-- root on usb / rescue thing for myself a while back, after  
realizing Knoppix, and netbsd4live 
would not really cut it for me ( for that purpose), but read some man  
pages, and kidded myself about
easy it should be to make something like Knoppix ;-)
And, maybe you want to the thumbdrive to look as much a normal pc  
thumbdrive w/o losing features
you need? (just to summarize the thread so far)