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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Ian Scott wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Just a quick note to tell y'all of a way to save changes you make to your
> ramdisk.
> 
> What you do is:
> 
> Boot BL
        I booted to ramdisk BL2.

> Make changes
        I changed eznet.conf and resolv.conf.

> Mount your dos drive.
        mount /dev/hda2 /mnt  (I have BL2 in D:)

> CD to wherever you installed BL.
        I finally figured out that you mean to cd to the basiclinux
        directory in the DOS partition:
        cd /mnt/bl2
        
> Copy the contents of your ramdisk to a file:
> cat /dev/ram0>ramdisk
        Took a few seconds.

> and zip it up
> gzip ramdisk
> 
> (Both of these may take a while, depending on the power of your computer)
        Took a minute or two on my P166 with 16M RAM.
> 
> 
> You will then have a new ramdisk called ramdisk.gz which contains the 
> changes you
> just made.
> 
> If you then rename your normal ramdisk (baslinux.gz or whatever it is 
> called)
> to something else (so you have a backup if your changes don't work) and 
> rename
> your new ramdisk to baslinux.gz, next time you boot BL, you will use your
> changed ramdisk.

I renamed the new one baslin2.gz and will make a new boot file.
I might also remove the network card modules to make a smaller file.
And modify the links configuration file to show numbered links.
links-ssl appears to use this same file (but not hotlist.html - why?)
 
> I find this useful for persisting changes to configuration files, etc - I 
> now
> have a saveram script in my ramdisk to do this so it can save itself!
> 
> Hope this is useful,

Very useful, thanks.

I am still staring in some perplexity at Steven's instructions for using
loop to do this.  I still don't know how to mount baslinux to /mnt, make
changes (presumably to the files located in /mnt), umount /mnt, and then
gzip baslinux.  Perhaps the last two steps should be reversed? And I don't
think this will work from the ramdisk version because there is not enough
space to mount all of baslinux to /mnt (in ramdisk) after booting baslinux
to ramdisk.  Maybe I could mount to /tmp instead?
Sindi Keesan

> 
> Ian
> 
> 
> 
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