[Soekris] Ram Disk based linux distro ?

[Ken Caruso]

On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 22:22 -0500, Jaime Vargas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am looking for a linux distro that could be PXE booted and which  
> the installation never touches the Flash Card. Also I need it to  
> include the "prism2_srec" tool, so that I can mass-upgrade some  
> radios using senao cards with old firmware.  The radios have a BSD  
> base OS in the flash card.
> 
> Could someone here recommend such distro? I am looking for something  
> similar to flashboot (http://www.mindrot.org/projects/flashboot/),  
> but on the linux side.

Pyramid ( http://pyramid.metrix.net ) is not a ram based distro however
we provide a kernel and initrd for boot strapping that use a ram disk
and can run without touching the local disk. It may be possible to just
copy prism2_srec and the firmware images to the initrd image, since its
dependencies seem pretty lite:

compost$ ldd prism2_srec 
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7e5a000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f94000)



-Ken
ken at metrix.net
http://metrix.net

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Jaime Vargas
> 
> 
> 
> 
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