I am trying to get a version of debian running on a 512mb Compact Flash card.

I have managed to get a graphical system up and running. My aim now is to try and minimise disk activity. I did try the obvious and set the "ro" kernel option, but this just stopped it booting, as i was getting errors when trying to write log files.

So what I would like to do, is stop ALL automatic disk writing. I dont want a full readonly system.

How can I turn off ALL writing to log files?

I have created a 16mb RAMDRIVE. Can I write all logs to there? This would still allow me to see any error logs etc, but they will dissapear when rebooted.

Check out this months copy of Linuxjournal.com.

The only safe way to run Linux from a flash device is to have the ENTIRE system in a RAMDisk.

You can't mount the CF card as the root file system without completely destroying it.