On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:35:03AM -0500, James Melin wrote: > I agree. After some poking around I couldn't find documentation that would > allow me to make a RAM disk recovery system. I am looking to be able to > build a 'Disaster Recovery' ramdisk with some stuff in it that isn't on the > vendor CD.
A ramdisk is just a filesystem image. You can basically loop-mount it (mkdir -p path/to/mnt/point; mount -o loop image_file path/to/mount/point) IIRC redhat uses gzipped ext2 partitions, so you have to gunzip image_file before loop-mounting it, and gzipping it when you're done (and rename it). [ Tons of over-quotes removed ] -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+
