Is there any option to boot gentoo-basic-x86-1.4_rc2.iso entirely into tmpfs instead of using cloop? I find cloop to be quite inconvenient, at least for the basic CD with 40MB. I don't think it's worth the trouble just for a 27 MB cloop file. It's OK for things like KNOPPIX, where you have to fit an entire live filesystem onto a single CD. root@cheetah:pts/1 /export # ls -l /mnt/cdrom/livecd.cloop -rw-r--r-- 1 1008 users 28321920 Jan 1 07:25 /mnt/cdrom/livecd.cloop All my bigger computers have at least 1 Gig of RAM, and even the smaller ones have 256-512 MB. Should be plenty to load everything into tmpfs. /dws PS: Background: I wanted to read an updated EVMS tarball from another CD and wanted to free the CD drive....see following text I think the kernel portion was updated to EVMS 1.2.1, but the user space part was not. Since I want to install even root onto EVMS RAID5, this is very inconvenient, especially since most stuff in /sbin, /lib, /usr ... is read-only because of cloop. I managed to copy /mnt/cloop into / (tmpfs) and to rearrange some symlinks to point to the RW copy, but I cannot get the CDROM free to insert another CD to read some updated stuff into the boot environment. This is expected, of course, since the are tons of open libraries and stuff. My question: How can I rebuild the bootcd with another version of the EVMS utilities. Is there an ebuild for the boot cd?
At the boot prompt, type "gentoo cdcache". You can now umount /mnt/cdrom and insert another CD. :)
Thanks a lot. Works as advertised. That helps. But maybe this option should be documented in the boot screen and in the inistall guide. Did I miss something there? /dws
On the 13 Jan 2003 livecd it is now documented. Thanks.
