The Audiopint project does this - details at <a href="http://audiopint.org">audiopint.org</a> if you're interested. We have a stripped-down Ubuntu image that you can download - it can be written to a USB flash drive, which the system boots from.
<br>-David<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 4, 2008 11:49 AM, Olivier Heinry <<a href="mailto:olivier.heinry@manga-burgah.net">olivier.heinry@manga-burgah.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Le Tue, 1 Jan 2008 22:28:10 +0100,<br>Peter Plessas <<a href="mailto:plessas@mur.at">plessas@mur.at</a>> a écrit :<br><br>> * Derek Holzer <<a href="mailto:derek@umatic.nl">derek@umatic.nl</a>> [2008-01-01 22:18]:
<br>> > Either way could work, the ramdisk is a particularly good idea. Unless<br>> > the installation is networked, there's not too much need for logfiles in<br>> > the classic server or multiuser environment sort of sense. You could
<br>> > probably also just disable to logging daemon by removing it from the<br>> > boot scripts using rc-update (on Gentoo at least, or with another<br>> > distro-specific equivalent). I imagine that logging would simply just
<br>> > fail quietly if the partition were read-only... I mean, what would log<br>> > the fact that the logs weren't logging? ;-)<br>><br>> Right, that's a nice point in particular! Thanks for the hints!
<br>><br><br>You may also use Pure:Dyne, boot from CD, nest to a USB CF media. No HD needed.<br><br>If you have lots of RAM available and really need to write something, just use /dev/shm which is a kind of advanced RAM disk available on most Linux distros. Use a bash script to copy video/audio files & patches from the CD/DVD to /dev/shm in RAM at startup and symlink them to your /home or /tmp
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