Re: Need more (flash) disk space

From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Sat Dec 22 2001 - 14:16:03 CET


On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 10:56:03PM +0100, Fabio Soldati nicely wrote:
>
> > - Mount the compact-flash under /media.
> This is what I don't understand. How can I mount the device where muLinux is
> running??
> Therefore I ignored this advice and created a directory on my cloned muLinux
> directly on the flash disk.

If you just can boot from flash, no problem.

> >
> > After that, you will have any addon in the compressed form.
> After this modifications I've restarted my muLinux. Then on startup it
> decompressed the addons directly to the flash disk and not to a virtual RAM
> disk, as I wanted it.

The system think itself as a cloned system, not a ram system.
The script is /setup/fun/LOADER.
There is a function called load_addon(). As first point, the point
set the variable METHOD.
Try to put METHOD=ramdisk, after the relevant if-the-else.

Michele

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