Re: [LI] Initrd and Ramdisk

["Bilal Muddassir" <noorh@xxxxxxx>]

Installing Linux without the boot and root floppies, you have to run loadlin
with the option initrd=color.gz which is a compressed file system of course
Therefore Khader might be right

----- Original Message -----
From: <skhader@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 1999 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: [LI] Initrd and Ramdisk


> Hello there,
> Well, thanks for that Sunil.
> Anyway, My idea of Ramdisk is the same as yours. So, I am right there.
> My idea of initrd was that it was a compressed filesystem which was
> necessary for booting. ( I dunno whether that was right ?? I think it is
> wrong)
>
> And coming to your question , I am both as of now.
>
> Regards
>                Khader
>
> Syed Khader Vali                                  skhader@xxxxxxxxxx
> Associate Technical Executive           # 91-80-5262355      Extn:2527
> IBM Global Services India (P) Ltd.
>
>
>
> "Sunil Sarat" <sunil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on 11/25/99 02:44:52 PM
>
>
> You can try to copy your files to the Ramdisk by doing the following
> mkdir  /tmp/ramdisk0
> mkfs -t ext2 /dev/ram0
> mount /dev/ram0 /tmp/ramdisk0
>
> Your ramdisk is available at /tmp/ramdisk0
>
> Initrd is simply a ramdisk that is initialized   by  the boot loader
before
> the kernel is started.  Initial root file system is loaded from initrd.
>
>
> Hope it helps. By the way are you a programmer or a sysadmin?
>
>
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