On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Peter Gerwinski wrote:
> As Christopher Hoover wrote, there seems to be a method to use bootp
> instead. An example for how to set up an initrd that way would be
> useful.
the initrd example was once on www.linuxce.com, but now the domain is a
porn site if i remember correctly
> > i can make cibd accept compressed images if you want (but you shouldn't
> > need this - 2M is a lot of space).
> I don't think so: In order to squeeze an initrd with PCMCIA support
> into 2 MB, had to remove even comments from configuration files.
> A third MB would allow for a busybox in the initrd and thus make
> debugging much easier.
probably using uClibc or diet-libc instead of glibc would cut the size in
half.
i will try to do the compression thing once i get any free time (next year
probably :)
> Having a RAM disk of, say, 16 MB would allow for an X11 installation
> - which means that you can have a usable shell without the need for
but then you couldn't run X11, because you wouldn't have enough free
memory.
however if someone gets the framebuffer console to work it could serve as
a demo image for people wanting to try out if linux works on their jornada
> a CF card. (Without X11, you can still have a shell on the serial
> line, but carrying along a serial terminal is not what I'd call
> "mobility".;-)
especially if it's an original DEC VT100 :)
jacek
Received on Wed Jun 26 13:59:27 2002
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