Re: RE: Opie digest, Vol 1 #170 - 7 msgs

Hi Calvin,

> What are the risks of installing software into a RAM fs on the iPaq? I

risks? you might lose all you installed on ram ;)
but since the user data gets installed to /root this should not be much of a
problem.
i am not quite sure what you do...
... do you want to install all of opie on ram? then the worst thing would be
that you have a dangling link from /opt to /mnt/ramfs/opt
... do you want to install opie partially on ram then you could end up with
heaps of dangling links from / to /mnt/ramfs. in this case you might want to
have a look at oipkg (but start it from the cmd line), but still the links do
not get removed (even though this is on the wishlist of oipkg)

> have a 3670, which has lots of ram, but only 16 MB of flash. I like your
> idea a lot, but I don't want to risk blowing up the user interface
> installation in the event of a reboot. I'm assuming the RAM FS is

there are plans to have oipkg to keep track of the packages installed on
volatile and the reinstall if it vanished.

> volatile. Is it possible to install software into a ram-fs without puting
> that entire FS at risk?

i heard some rumours about been able to reboot the ipaq without loosing ram

you're welcome
patrick

ps.
please do not use "Opie digest, Vol ..." subjects

> Thanks!
>
> Calvin
> Calvin.Cannon@avnet.com
>
> -------------------------
> Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 18:38:47 +0200
> From: "Patrick S. Vogt" <patrick.vogt@unibas.ch>
> Subject: Re: [Opie] Opie in "main memory" on iPaq?
> To: Steve Howson <steve@howsonfamily.com>, opie@handhelds.org
>
> create an opt directory in the ram filesysthem and link it to the root
> filesysthem.
> this should do the job.
>
> patrick
>
> On Sunday 16 June 2002 18:10, Steve Howson wrote:
> > Hi all.
> > I've been messing with Opie over the past couple of days and was
> > wondering if there's a way to install it other than in "main memory". I
> > have the OS and apps that I'll be using regularly installed and only have
> > about 1.5 megs free.
> >
> > I put it on my 3630 with 32 megs RAM.
> >
> > Thanks for any information.
>
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Received on Tue Jun 18 10:22:31 2002