John Wendel <jwendel10 <at> comcast.net> writes:
On 07/01/2012 12:17 PM, jdow wrote:
> [SNIP]
> The equivalent is done with live CDs you know.
>
> {^_^}
I think you just supplied the answer! I didn't think of it, but the
equivalent of a live CD is exactly what I need. Now I just need to
figure out how to build a live CD like system, minus the compressed
filesystem stuff and I should be there.
I should have mentioned earlier that this box is going to be a dedicated
media player, with the compact flash drive as it's only disc. I know I
should probably just use openelec or geexbox, but that would take all
the fun out of it. I will try to steal the init system from one of these
dedicated distributions, but I really want to build the system with
Fedora packages as much as possible.
Thanks everyone for sharing your knowledge.
John
The live CD systems that I've dealt with have all created a minimal, in-RAM /
(or root) using ramfs. Just boot with your favorite live CD distro, open a
terminal and run mount. It does mean that the image of / can be read-only and
it takes surprisingly little RAM to have the bits of Linux in RAM that are
actually volatile.
Cheers,
Dave