On Monday 09 June 2003 07:22 pm, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Lynn Avants wrote: [...] > > That *is* the difference between embedded and non-embedded. Embedded runs > > from a ramdisk and non-embedded runs from a non-RAM disk. ;) > > I beg to differ. There is no direct linkage between "embedded" and > "ramdisk". Personally, I think it is easier to work with a ramdisk root, > but there are certainly advantages to having a flash disk root in the > "embedded" domain.
I can't necessarily argue with that. There is hardware and software embedding, while no clear definition of 'embedding' itself. What I personally consider an 'embedded OS' *is* running '/' in ramdisk, but that is only my 2 cents. > > As I said before, LEAF is not designed to run with the '/' filesystem on > > any media other than ramdisk... which is *exactly* what you are > > attempting to do. > > This is very true, but I would not presume to suggest that this would > be true for all future LEAF variants. > > However, if someone chooses to set up a distro that does not use a ramdisk > as root, it will not resemble any of the current LEAF variants. That will > mean that support for it on this email list may not be very practical > because it would differ so much from the normal LEAF variants. So if they > remained part of the LEAF alliance, they would probably need a more > specialized mailing list. Very true again, but this does not exist right now and there isn't a simple way of running '/' from a physical drive unless you want to go through the boot core and make the appropiate changes that is not a simple process or well-documented (if documentation to do so even exists). -- ~Lynn Avants Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall Developer http://leaf.sourceforge.net http://guitarlynn.homelinux.org:81 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
