New RAMDISK driver README
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	This improved version of the ramdisk driver contains two major 
enhancements to the older ramdisk driver :

	1.  It supports gzipped ramdisk images.  This, for example, makes 
the standard 1.44MB rootdisk shipped with Slackware 2.2 take up only 544K 
of disk space.  This feature can be used easily by gziping a standard 
rootdisk (or creating a larger one in a ramdisk), and copying it down to 
the floppy.

	This can be extremely useful for certain rare situations (like if 
you only have a 720K disk to put a rootdisk on - using this ramdisk 
driver, you can put a full rootdisk on it...)

(TODO:  Make the gzip loader read at 384K and 512K into the disk, so a 
kernel and a rootdisk can both be used.)

	2.  It also supports multiple ramdisk devices (referencing 
straight to the buffer cache).  A buffer protection scheme has been added 
to the buffer.c system, which should keep the buffers safe.

	You can create the devices by doing :

	mknod /dev/ramX b 33 X

	(X is the minor number - it can be up to 255.  Note that minor #0 
can be the static ramdisk as well, so I suggest that it not be mknoded.)
	
	Enjoy!

	- Chad Page
	 (cpage@best.com)