Hello all,
I'm getting rather confused and need some straightening out.. I want to
build a little firewall, I want to initally boot from a HDD then run from
/dev/ram0 I have a few questions. with v.2.2.16 from slackware v7.1
1) Is it possible to dd if=kernel of=/dev/hda1 bs=1k then say that takes up
500kb then run dd if=rootfs.gz of=/dev/hda1 bs=1k seek=500 so that the kernel
should load straight from the superblock and then load the root image presuming
I rdev /dev/hda1 /dev/hda1 ; rdev -r /dev/hda1 0 and rdev -R 16884 (as it says
in the bootdisk howto) this should work yes??
2) Is there any other way to do this? i.e. maybe boot from the HDD then dd the
HDD to /dev/ram and remount?? or something? as that would be easier to work
with..
3) I was trying this with a flashdisk but for the life of me the ramdisk
wouldn't work but when i tried it on a floppy it worked.. is fd0 the equiv as
hda or hda1?? or does it even matter???
Thanks
1 confused Stephen.
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