Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2217 mails)

[Roger Oberholtzer <roger@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 10:26 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Sep 27 2007 12:19, CyberOrg wrote:
> >
> >> seems to have a similar method with a squashfs image. We usually boot
> >> the diskless client and run one app all the time. So accessing the
> >> server is no issue. Out of curiosity, how small could the image be? On
> >> thinstation, with a graphic desktop, our image is < 8 MB. I would love
> >> to use suse as the base as I am more familiar with it than with
> >> thinstation.
> >
> >That sure is awesome(< 8 MB) we would love your contribution in
> >trimming down our image which is currently 160MB squashfs. Although it
> >could be reduced, we are trying to get everything working well first,
> >reducing the size is not very high on our priorities.
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 3020209 Sep  8 21:06 initrd-2.6.22.3-ccj53_lh-default.cpio.gz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1612192 Aug 29 19:47 vmlinuz-2.6.22.3-ccj53-default
> 
> Nothing special really. Just tweak mkinitrd so much that it
> sets up an aufs, which is really just a few kilobytes extra
> compared to the regular initrds mkinitrd produces.

So, these files boot the system and result in mounting the rest via NFS?

I need to see how the remote system has the stuff to be mounted via NFS
set up.

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Roger Oberholtzer

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