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Posted: May 17 2008,06:22 QUOTE
This may be a dumb question, but...
I notice 4 types of DSL listed in
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....rst.txt
(iso, syslinux, embedded, and vmx.)

But in the file listing, I see 5 types, the fifth type being initrd.
What does that one do?

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It has my 1998 computer running firefox2, which
I doubt I could have done without DSL
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Posted: May 17 2008,09:53 QUOTE
initrd always loads to ram, it's useful for booting from network.

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Posted: May 18 2008,03:52 QUOTE
Quote (curaga @ May 17 2008,09:53)
initrd always loads to ram, it's useful for booting from network.

Ok...  but I thought initrd loaded to ram on all types...

or does dsl-x.x-initrd.iso stuff the entire thing in initrd,
whereas the regular dsl-x.x.iso puts only the startup in initrd,
with the rest loading afterwards from the knoppix file?
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Posted: May 18 2008,10:57 QUOTE
You're correct in every part :)

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Posted: May 18 2008,21:55 QUOTE
There is also a pxe extension, which turns the initrd edition into a pxe server.
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