Re: debian on openbrick
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 12:44:13PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
Hi Joye,
> I read with interest your article
> (http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4540125636.html) on how you
> crammed Debian into a 32 mb compact flash on an openbrick E, as I did
> the same thing, but with a very different technique on my openbrick.
What I did in the article is for the OpenBrick-E. The OpenBrick-E
has 256M RAM in the default configuration, compared to the 128M
RAM OpenBrick. My next step would be to uncompress the cloop-
based filesystem and mount its entirety on the tempfs. Next, I
would be able to upgrade it on the fly. The only limit is the
size of the ramdisk, which is 256M for the OpenBrick-E. Then,
I just have to compress it again into the a clooped filesystem and
to store it on the compactflash.
I do have a long to-do list, before it will be ready to be packaged.
Personally, I don't think it is safe to mount the compactflash as
the "live" root filesystem. It is not designed to have that many
write-cycles as a regular hard disk. So, even with a larger size
compactflash, what we are doing will still be valuable contributions.
Thanks.
Bao
--
Best Regards.
Bao C. Ha
Hacom OpenBrick Distributor USA http://www.hacom.net
voice: (310) 675-8221 fax: (310) 675-8225
8D66 6672 7A9B 6879 85CD 42E0 9F6C 7908 ED95 6B38
Reply to: