Re: mu SETUP Still quite confused

From: Shannon Mecklenburg (shannon@mecklenburg.cc)
Date: Wed Dec 05 2001 - 04:55:13 CET


I'll look into that!

At 09:18 AM 12/4/01 +0100, you wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 04:51:29PM -0500, Shannon Mecklenburg nicely wrote:
> > That's fantastic! I heard of SanDisk! My next project would probably
> be a
> > MP3 player that uses a cheap type of Compact Flash for the media.
> >
> > I modified your OS so that /etc/, /dev/, /boot, /tmp, and /var,
> /setup/cnf,
> > /setup/sys are loaded into RAM via /dev/initrd. There are symbolic
> links. I
> > then have the Root file system mounted as read only. The file system
> stays
> > locked until its time to update the conf.tgz file in which case I issue a
> > "mount -r -w -o remount /" followed by a "setup -s lock" and then a "mount
> > -r -o remount,ro /" to relock the file system.
>
>Maybe, part of your modifications are not necessary: root.gz is always
>loaded in RAM. If you explore in /etc/rc you will find a "mount_usr".
>If you pass to the kernel the parameter usr=/dev/XYZ, mulinux try to
>mount boot/usr.img in /usr (boot/ is a directory on /dev/XYZ).
>
>
> >
> > It looks like CRAMFS could replace the INITRD boot image, right? Thats
> > pretty cool! I can't make initrd images larger than 4MB, but I think that
> > may be due to the way the kernel was compiled.
>
>This is a limitation of the 2.0.* serie.
>
> > That's pretty cool that the OS fits into 3 nicely defined files! I can't
> > use that method (I don't think) because the machine won't be on a DHCP
> > server so the IP has to be manually configured.
>
>I suggest you to use the script "roclone" (read-only clone) trying to
>get back the "three" files.
>
>
>Michele
>
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