[syslinux] I want to use a ram disk as / after network booting.
Paul Whittaker
paw at si1.dod.gov.au
Sun Aug 28 23:14:58 PDT 2005
>Hi
>
>I am an engineer who is making communication systems.
>I have a board(made by Kontron ltd, Intel CPU, currently with diskless )
>that is used in compactPCI.
>I boot that board with network PXELINUX method and currently using NFS.
>But I don't want to use NFS and I want to make and use ram disk image.
>That means I want to use a ram disk as /.
>Currently I made a initrd by ltsp_initrd_kit.
>What should I have to change in 'linuxrc' file and pxelinux.cfg/default
>file. And how can I make ram disk image.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>HCK.
>
>================================================
>Hyeon Cheol Kim
>
>
There are several open source thin client distributions that use a
permanent initrd (or initramfs). Try Thinstation.sf.net, PXES.sf.net or
DIET-PC.sf.net. LTSP is not suitable for this purpose.
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