Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!uport!ken
From: ken@uport.UUCP (Ken Chapin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Ramdisk usage on V/386
Keywords: ramd
Message-ID: <287@uport.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 88 15:23:18 GMT
References: <176@wa3wbu.UUCP> <6515@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Reply-To: ken@uport.UUCP (Ken Chapin)
Organization: Microport Systems, Scotts Valley, CA
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In article <6515@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> elwiz@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Chert Pellett) writes:
>In article <176@wa3wbu.UUCP> john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes:
>>
>>    Has anyone came up with a procedure to format, mkfs, and mount 
>>the Ram disk thats provided with V/386 ?
>>
>	Or better yet, Anyone got a way to get it out of the kernel?
>(If you can make it bigger, it might be worthwhile.)  I assume that
>it was put in to allow U-Port to boot from a write-protected floppy, and
>
The module's called ramd. You can comment it out in the atconf/systems/system.x
file and make a new kernel if you like or you can tweek with the atconf/modules-
ramd/space.c file to change its default size, then make a new kernel.


Ken Chapin         UUCP: ...!{sun | ucbvax | ihnp4}!amdcad!uport!ken
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