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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Gerald my friend</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>U forgot the link <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=djayweb@djayux.net href="mailto:djayweb@djayux.net">Gérald Fenoy</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net
href="mailto:postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net">PostGIS Users
Discussion</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 04, 2005 2:41
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [postgis-users] Use of
Postgis/postgresql without installation?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR>Maybe crasy to answer my own mail but .... 8cD<BR><BR>You
could find some example of bootable OpenBSD CD scripts I've made <BR>there's
about one year. But it must always wroks I think ... <BR>Nevertheless you
could read the file as an inspiration for your <BR>project.<BR><BR><BR>Le 4
mai 05, à 14:30, Gérald Fenoy a écrit :<BR><BR>><BR>> Le 4 mai 05, à
14:00, Andreas Neumann a écrit :<BR>><BR>>> Hi
all,<BR>>><BR>>> I have a question: is it possible to start and
use postgresql/postgis <BR>>> from a read only cd-rom without first
doing a setup? I am thinking <BR>>> about using postgis for a CD/DVD
based mapping application but the <BR>>> goal is to run the application
without a setup, directly from the <BR>>> DVD. Is that
possible?<BR>>><BR>><BR>> Hi alone :)<BR>> Yes you could/it's
possible (as every things ... ;cD ), you maybe <BR>> need to mount some
filesystem into ram in order to write some files <BR>> ... If youre system
is an unix like so you need to google for kernel <BR>> option RAMDISK_HOOKS
and maybe also the kernel module called <BR>> mount_union if you want to be
able to use generated configuration file <BR>> ... You could see example
into /usr/src/sys/arch/your_arch/conf/ ...<BR>><BR>> For linux platform
you simply read doc about bootable disk creation, <BR>> you'll use the same
principle which consist on mounting an image file <BR>> (frequently called
initrd) into ram to use it as the root filesystem. <BR>> For linux u need a
linuxrc or init script which will be launched just <BR>> after carging the
kernel image into memory.<BR>> For example on linux flopy disk you could
use an old things I've made <BR>> here : <A
href="http://www.djayux.net/Floppy/">http://www.djayux.net/Floppy/</A><BR>><BR>>
Hope that help.<BR>>
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