Le Tue, 1 Jan 2008 22:28:10 +0100, Peter Plessas plessas@mur.at a écrit :
- Derek Holzer derek@umatic.nl [2008-01-01 22:18]:
Either way could work, the ramdisk is a particularly good idea. Unless the installation is networked, there's not too much need for logfiles in the classic server or multiuser environment sort of sense. You could probably also just disable to logging daemon by removing it from the boot scripts using rc-update (on Gentoo at least, or with another distro-specific equivalent). I imagine that logging would simply just fail quietly if the partition were read-only... I mean, what would log the fact that the logs weren't logging? ;-)
Right, that's a nice point in particular! Thanks for the hints!
You may also use Pure:Dyne, boot from CD, nest to a USB CF media. No HD needed.
If you have lots of RAM available and really need to write something, just use /dev/shm which is a kind of advanced RAM disk available on most Linux distros. Use a bash script to copy video/audio files & patches from the CD/DVD to /dev/shm in RAM at startup and symlink them to your /home or /tmp
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