Hyperion Entertainment Message Boards

Hi Spectre660,

Is it possible to create a uRamdisk from the SliTaz initrd.gz file? If yes, could you create a SliTaz uRamdisk, please?

Download: slitaz23.gz

I suggest to download SliTaz with a right click on the link and then with the menu point "Save target as" or something like this.

SliTaz has only 32-bit libraries and binaries. It needs a kernel modules directory for the Sams. SliTaz is very fast because it works completely in memory. It has the AmiWM X window manager that tries to make your display look and feel like an Amiga Workbench screen. It is fully functional and can do all the usual window manager stuff, like moving and resizing windows. You can start AmiWM with the script "startamiwm".

Screenshots:





Thank you in advance,

Christian

Unfortunately Sams apparently have a ramdisk size limit of about 16.5 MB compressed .
With Modules and firmware the SliTaz ramdisk would be about 67.7 MB compressed .

Spectre660 wrote:Unfortunately Sams apparently have a ramdisk size limit of about 16.5 MB compressed .
With Modules and firmware the SliTaz ramdisk would be about 67.7 MB compressed .

Can this help?

Step 2: Increase ramdisk size (http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Ramdisk/ramdisk.html)

Ramdisk size is controlled by a command-line option that is passed to the kernel during boot. Since GRUB is the default bootloader for Red Hat 9, I will modify /etc/grub.conf with the new kernel option. The kernel option for ramdisk size is:  ramdisk_size=xxxxx, where xxxxx is the size expressed in 1024-byte blocks.
..
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi ramdisk_size=16000
..

And maybe http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Ramdisk/r ... neldoc.txt or http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/Novem ... le124.html

Or is a different ramdisk you're talking?

It seems that there is an actual size limit so no it wont.

I am going to have this problem with my latest kernels and any new installers as the modules are to large ins size now to embed into the ramdisk.
Will have to resort to trying to build a custom iso and copy the kernel and modules etc from the CD.
Means that these iso's will boot and load the components and be about 700mb in size.
either that or I will have to use a stripped down set of modules for the install and the user will have to update manually.

javierdlr wrote:

Spectre660 wrote:Unfortunately Sams apparently have a ramdisk size limit of about 16.5 MB compressed .
With Modules and firmware the SliTaz ramdisk would be about 67.7 MB compressed .

Can this help?

Step 2: Increase ramdisk size (http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Ramdisk/ramdisk.html)

Ramdisk size is controlled by a command-line option that is passed to the kernel during boot. Since GRUB is the default bootloader for Red Hat 9, I will modify /etc/grub.conf with the new kernel option. The kernel option for ramdisk size is:  ramdisk_size=xxxxx, where xxxxx is the size expressed in 1024-byte blocks.
..
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi ramdisk_size=16000
..

And maybe http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Ramdisk/r ... neldoc.txt or http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/Novem ... le124.html

Or is a different ramdisk you're talking?