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urgent help needed!!in copying files to /tmp at boot time,pls help!
Hi all,

I am trying to boot a an OS from RAM...(its a opensolaris based distro)
For this i have picked up 2 key lib files that when copied to /tmp and mounted to respective places will do the job..
The sizes of these files combined comes upto 600mb.(i have 2gb ram)
Now i have also located the script that does the mounting of these 2 files (after a lofiadm)onto /usr and /mnt/<somedir> respectively.

Currently these files are directly lofiadm'd from the cdrom itself and then mounted,my quest is to copy it to /tmp, lofiadm it there and then mount

However when the script that mounts these files from cdrom is called that amount of swap space is not available(hence am not able to copy them to /tmp from tht file)

Can you please help me to find a work around?
Also i know that
1. /usr/lib/fs/tmpfs/mount swap tmp can do the job ,however at that moment tmpfs is not at all loaded from its path..
so what i did was to copy the binaries of mount(created a dir in that path called tmpfs and put this binary there)
so in the script i just called 1.
but its still not working, may i know what am doing wrong?
Also i was a bit skeptical about the usage of mount cmd to mount swap ,
would like to know if its right?

I require urgent help,as am a student and have my exams coming up
please assist

Thanks
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dh_movefiles

DH_MOVEFILES(1) 						     Debhelper							   DH_MOVEFILES(1)

NAME

       dh_movefiles - move files out of debian/tmp into subpackages

SYNOPSIS

       dh_movefiles [debhelperoptions] [--sourcedir=dir] [-Xitem] [file...]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_movefiles is a debhelper program that is responsible for moving files out of debian/tmp or some other directory and into other package
       build directories. This may be useful if your package has a Makefile that installs everything into debian/tmp, and you need to break that
       up into subpackages.

       Note: dh_install is a much better program, and you are recommended to use it instead of dh_movefiles.

FILES

       debian/package.files
	   Lists the files to be moved into a package, separated by whitespace. The filenames listed should be relative to debian/tmp/. You can
	   also list directory names, and the whole directory will be moved.

OPTIONS

       --sourcedir=dir
	   Instead of moving files out of debian/tmp (the default), this option makes it move files out of some other directory. Since the entire
	   contents of the sourcedir is moved, specifying something like --sourcedir=/ is very unsafe, so to prevent mistakes, the sourcedir must
	   be a relative filename; it cannot begin with a `/'.

       -Xitem, --exclude=item
	   Exclude files that contain item anywhere in their filename from being installed.

       file ...
	   Lists files to move. The filenames listed should be relative to debian/tmp/. You can also list directory names, and the whole directory
	   will be moved. It is an error to list files here unless you use -p, -i, or -a to tell dh_movefiles which subpackage to put them in.

NOTES

       Note that files are always moved out of debian/tmp by default (even if you have instructed debhelper to use a compatibility level higher
       than one, which does not otherwise use debian/tmp for anything at all). The idea behind this is that the package that is being built can be
       told to install into debian/tmp, and then files can be moved by dh_movefiles from that directory. Any files or directories that remain are
       ignored, and get deleted by dh_clean later.

SEE ALSO

       debhelper(7)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

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