From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 22 17:33:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmod.ath.cx (CC2-1242.charter-stl.com [24.217.116.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EB3F37B71A for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 17:33:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx) Received: by chmod.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1D1B7A90B; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 19:33:02 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 19:33:02 -0600 From: Andrew Hesford To: Eric M Logan Cc: Mike Meyer , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ramdisks and mfs... Message-ID: <20010322193302.A10189@cec.wustl.edu> References: <15033.28284.778431.468125@guru.mired.org> <3AB9B07F.E6F9D481@mediaone.net> <15034.1210.849837.67514@guru.mired.org> <3ABA5B59.6A6330C4@mediaone.net> <15034.27254.538073.247625@guru.mired.org> <3ABA7424.6036B736@mediaone.net> <20010322165925.A9880@cec.wustl.edu> <3ABA8457.A644C280@mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3ABA8457.A644C280@mediaone.net>; from ericmlogan@mediaone.net on Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 03:01:43PM -0800 X-Loop: Andrew Hesford Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try crucial.com. I got a 256M PC-100 DIMM for $90, when the local CompUSSR was selling 128M DIMMs for $130. It was delivered 2nd-Day UPS for free, too. On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 03:01:43PM -0800, Eric M Logan wrote: > Thanks, time to buy some dirt cheap ram. :) > > Andrew Hesford wrote: > > > Modify the MD_NSECT variable, yes. > > > > The MD_ROOT_SIZE=10 allows you to specify the size of a blank spot in > > the kernel for storing an md_image file. This well become your root > > device if you allow md root devices. > > > > By the way, can somebody please tell me how to put an md_image into the > > kernel like that? Is it just with some careful use of dd, is there a > > make flag, or some other method? I haven't been able to figure it out. > > > > Likewise, how can I extract the md_image from the kernel, if I want to > > modify it? PicoBSD builds a kernel with md_image built right in, but I > > can't figure out how to get the md_image in order to add some binaries. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message