[syslinux] INITRD > MEMSIZE / 2

[H. Peter Anvin]

Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> 
> You can have a small initrd that mounts the cdrom, a tmpfs device, untars
> the files over that fs over that fs and then does a pivot_root, etc..
> 
> That's how I do it, with support for several tar.gzs that work as packages. :)
> 

That's how I did it in "superrescue" too.  Being able to use ramfs/tmpfs
is a *big* win.

	-hpa