Re: More information about creating a Familiar 0.4 jffs image using mkfs.jffs2

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 07:19:17PM -0600, Davide Bruzzone wrote:
> Greetings all...
>
> I'm new to Linux on the iPaq, and am trying to obtain/compile more detailed
> information about creating a custom Familiar 0.4 jffs image using
> mkfs.jffs2.

Welcome aboard..

> Specifically:
>
> - When I untar/gz task-familiar-complete.tar.gz (which I got from the 0.4
> install/H3600 directory on ftp.handhelds.org) I see what looks like a
> filesystem in a task-familiar-complete directory. Are the contents of this
> file what I should be using to create the jffs image (If so, I suspect that
> jffs images can be created from a variety of sources... I'd just like to
> know whether something that looks like the filesystem is going to look like
> on the iPaq should be used as a starting point for the image)

Yup. That's a tar of what I build up the images from.

> - The documentation for mkfs.jffs2 talks about making an image with the
> following command:
>
> mkfs.jffs2 -r root -o root.jffs2 -e erasesize -p
>
> Based on the previous point, would "root" be the task-familiar-complete
> directory? i.e.
>
> mkfs.jffs2 -r ./task-familiar-complete ...

Yes. Set your erase size to 0x40000 and you should be all set. All the tools
I use for building distributions are checked into handhelds.org CVS under:

        familiar/dist

Probably the most interesting for you would be ``ipkg-make-familiar''.

Alexander
Received on Thu May 17 2001 - 20:36:41 EDT