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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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LEARN ABOUT BSD

ram

RAM(4)							     Kernel Interfaces Manual							    RAM(4)

NAME

       ram - ram disk driver

SYNOPSIS

       /sys/conf/SYSTEM:
	    NRAM ram_size  # RAM disk size (512-byte blocks)

       major device number(s):
	    block: 3
       minor device encoding:
	    must be zero (0)

DESCRIPTION

       The  ram  pseudo-device provides a very fast extended memory store.  It's use is intended for file systems like /tmp and applications which
       need to access a reasonably large amount of data quickly.

       The amount of memory dedicated to the ram device is controlled by the NRAM definition in units of 512-byte blocks.  This is also  patchable
       in  the	system	binary through the variable ram_size (though a patched system would have to be rebooted before any change took effect; see
       adb(1)).  This makes it easy to test the effects of different ram disk sizes on system performance.  It's important to note that any  space
       given  to  the ram device is permanently allocated at system boot time.	Dedicating too much memory can adversely affect system performance
       by forcing the system to swap heavily as in a memory poor environment.

       The block file accesses the ram disk via the system's buffering mechanism through a buffer sharing arrangement with the buffer  cache.	It
       may be read and written without regard to physical disk records.  There is no `raw' interface since no speed advantage is gained by such an
       interface with the ram disk.

DISK SUPPORT

       The ram driver does not support pseudo-disks (partitions).  The special files  refer  to  the  entire  `drive'  as  a  single  sequentially
       addressed file.

       A  typical  use	for  the ram disk would be to mount /tmp on it.  Note that if this arrangement is recorded in /etc/fstab then /etc/rc will
       have to be modified slightly to do a mkfs(8) on the ram disk before the standard file system checks are done.

FILES

       /dev/ram 	   block file
       /dev/MAKEDEV	   script to create special files
       /dev/MAKEDEV.local  script to localize special files

SEE ALSO

       hk(4), ra(4), rl(4), rk(4), rp(4), rx(4), si(4), xp(4) dtab(5), autoconfig(8)

DIAGNOSTICS

       ram: no space.  There is not enough memory to allocate the space needed by the ram disk.  The ram disk is disabled.  Any attempts to access
       it will return an error.

       ram: not allocated.  No memory was allocated to the ram disk and an attempt was made to open it.  Either not enough memory was available at
       boot time or the kernel variable ram_size was set to zero.

BUGS

       The ram driver is only available under 2.11BSD.

3rd Berkeley Distribution					 Januray 27, 1996							    RAM(4)