[Bootcd-user] A Different RAM Disk Approach + Using Mozilla Firefox

Vlado Plaga news@vlado-do.de
Sat, 05 Jun 2004 19:48:46 +0200


Thomas Krennwallner wrote:

> Thanks for your suggestions but we are aware of the ramdisk hassle. The
> ramdisk approach is used because it's portable between all kernel
> versions. Maybe there should be config option or an on-the-fly test for
> used ram-based filesystem.

That would be nice too. To me it seems more likely for people to have a
system with only 64 MB RAM or so than wanting to boot a 2.2 kernel or
older - why should anyone? When was the ramfs/tmpfs option introduced,
by the way?

Greetings,

Vlado