LOADRAMDISK(8)LOADRAMDISK(8)NAMEloadramdisk - copy an image of a file system to /dev/ram
SYNOPSISloadramdisk file
DESCRIPTION
Loadramdisk copies the content of a device or a file containing an
image of a file system, specified by the file argument, to /dev/ram.
This way the source is preserved untouched, and can resides on a read-
only media like a CD, while the copied-to version may be mounted as
read-write file system and used as root device.
NOTES
A ramdisk can be initialized only once.
SEE ALSOdev(4), init(8), mount(2), newroot(8).
AUTHOR
Loadramdisk.c was written by Philip Homburg.
February 1st, 2010 LOADRAMDISK(8)