Bug#751716: [debian-installer] Patch
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Bastien ROUCARIES
<roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>
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