On Friday 09 January 2004 17:57, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 06:52:53AM -0500, Robert Bernier wrote:
> > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > >Robert Treat wrote:
> > >>There have been people on other disks asking about getting knoppix
> > >>flavored distros to carry postgresql for their own demonstrations, I
> > >>think it would be great if someone could put together a distro with
> > >>postgresql, pgadmin, pgaccess, phppgadmin, and maybe a few other tools,
> > >>that could boot from a cd to be handed out for demonstration purposes.
> > >> I won't pretend like it wouldn't be a good sized project to undertake.
> >
> > A knoppix variant with Postgres installed has already been done.
>
> Does it actually run? I thought Postgres was not prepared to run on
> read-only media. It needs a separate PGDATA area, doesn't it?
tmpfs data mount?
The distro. I use, archlinux, mounts /tmp as tmpfs. Don't know how good/bad
that is. But doesn't cause any harm to a typical desktop machine either..
Shridhar
