January 19, 201214 yr Is it possible to install packages onto my cache disk somewhere instead of loading into memory?
January 19, 201214 yr You could be more specific. Some packages just add Slackware files that would exist on a more complete Linux install and must be installed to the ram file system. Other packages requires disk space. I have a number of programs with the files stored on my cache disk and running from there. I guess you could mount a drive anywhere in the ram filesystem though so that part of the filesystem was on a drive. Peter
January 19, 201214 yr Author I too run some things from disk, but for example I run openssh and openssl (installed from unmenu) as .tgz slackware packages... those are loaded into memory, correct?
January 19, 201214 yr I too run some things from disk, but for example I run openssh and openssl (installed from unmenu) as .tgz slackware packages... those are loaded into memory, correct? Correct. It's possible to do an installpkg --root to another directory. I believe then you could do a special form of the cp command which would copy this root recurseively to the ram filesystem as symlinks rather then the regular files. See the man page here. http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?cp Specifically this option, -s, --symbolic-link make symbolic links instead of copying
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