Re: Please HELp with settings!

On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Aleksandr Bogomolov wrote:

> Hi,

Many of your questions can be solved by simply installing the latest
Familiar release - see http://familiar.handhelds.org for instructions.
Familiar used JFFS2 - a read-write compressed filesystem in flash ROM - so
you can easily make changes to anything except the kernel, which currently
lives outside the filesystem (although that is expected to change soon).

> How can I make changes to the PATH, etc. permanent?

Change then in /etc/init.d/x - since this is the file which starts your X
server, anything running under X will inherit the changes. This will not
change your settings on a serial or network login - changing /etc/profile
should do that.

> How can change the amount of RAM using fstab and then make those changes
> take effect without rebooting?

You can't. The amount of RAM in your device is fixed when it's built, and
can only be changed by changing some of the chips inside :-)

If you mean changing the size of the RAMfs - you don't need to. It will
grow to accomodate all the files you want to put in it, up to available RAM.

> Also, I saw someone mention something about creating new cramfs(?) to make
> changes permanent (like when installing a network card).
> Could someone please elaborate on that or point to the right page?

This has been unnecessary for months now. Since Familiar uses JFFS2 (a
read-write filesystem) rather than CRAMFS (a read-only filesystem), all you
need to do is install Familiar, then you can just edit files in the
filesystem in the usual way.

> Thank you
> Alex
> Aleksandr Bogomolov

Cheers
Richard
Received on Sat Jul 7 01:53:46 2001