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Re: flashing fails due to size issue during upgrade



On 21 February 2011 21:00, Jeffrey B. Green <jeff@kikisoso.org> wrote:

>> The 8 MB flash is divided into different partitions and the ramdisk
>> partition is only 6 MB; see http://cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/boot.html
>>
>
> Thanks for the info.

Compressing my initrd with lzma instead of gzip reduces its size by
30%, so it could fit.
BEWARE though, there could be catches I'm not aware of (I haven't
actually tried booting in this configuration), maybe Martin could
enlighten us?

Cheers,

Luca


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