On Sep 27 2007 11:50, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
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?
As per http://jengelh.hopto.org/f/opensuse-netboot.diff, it mounts the path (hardcoded - not so good - /daten/tftpboot/linux) from the NFS server (advertised by dhcpd - good) and combines it with a zeroed local partition LABEL=tmp (if available) or with tmpfs, to store changed data, and continues like a normal system. Contrary to implementations like "DXS" or KIWI (which I have not tried though), this uses a suse initrd and _not_ a "distro-independent" custom solution, because such often are not "100% nice" ;-)
I need to see how the remote system has the stuff to be mounted via NFS set up. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org