Bug#751716: [debian-installer] Patch
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-07-13 at 00:58 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> wrote:
>> > * Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> [2014-07-12 19:05]:
>> >> Hi UImage is too big to get into mtd :S You said that it it is a
>> >> trimmed down version ? Any idea to trim more ?
>> >
>> > I believe we said the initramfs generated by initramfs-tools is
>> > trimmed down. How big is the uimage and how much space do you have?
>>
>> 5242880 byte or 5M
>
> The kirkwood kernel is just under 2MB, so there's no way the uImage
> could be 5M. This is enforced at kernel build time see
> linux/debian/config/armel/defines which has:
> [kirkwood_image]
> recommends: uboot-mkimage
> # SheevaPlug: 4194304 - 8 - 64 = 4194232
> # QNAP TS-119/TS-219: 2097152 - 8 - 64 = 2097080
> check-size: 2097080
>
> Maybe we are talking about uInitrd/uRamdisk?
Yes it is uInitrd
>> >> BTW it seems that this config need a serial console in order to set
>> >> ssh password. Do you have pointer about documentation of how to set it
>> >> without serial. I plan to document dns-320 on the wiki.
>> >
>> > Take a look at oldsys-preseed. You could just generate a dummy stanza
>> > that will do DHCP with a fallback IP address (instead of actually
>> > reading the network config from the device).
>
> I always thought that this was the default behaviour of the
> network-console flavour images, is it not?
No it is not. It ask for hostaname and password for ssh
Bastien
> Ian.
>
Reply to: