Running only on RAM

[Benjamin J. Weiss]

> Em Qui, 2003-12-11 às 13:57, Luis Roberto escreveu:
> >      I'm searching to make (yet another one) project of an embeded
> > system to make router/fw box. I'm searching informations to make a
> > basic Linux booting from a Compact Flash and, due to minimal capacity
> > of writing on CF, the system must ONLY work in RAM (really rare write
> > on the CF).
> >     It's a like the way CISCO and other product use to due for their
> > hardware : the system is on a flash memory and it run only in ram.
> >      So I've question about this : like I don't plan to rewrite all an
> > OS but instead reuse one, I want to know if someone could give me hint
> > about this regarding Fedora / Redhat ?
> >     I see that fedora offer a router/fw basic config ... is there a
> > way to reduce it over the size of the 256 Mo ???
> >
> >
> >
> There's one machine like this on linuxdevices.com - the guy made exactly
> what you want.

I used to use Linux Router Project, an entire linux router on a floppy.  It
would load into a RAM disk, and worked very well on a 486 with 32 meg of ram
that I had lying around.  I imagine that if they're still around, they'd to
the trick.

Ben