Dale Mentzer wrote:
>
> if a person has more than 8 meg RAM and wanted to
> configure BasicLinux to use more than the 4 meg RAMdisk
> now being created, what would be needed to do this? I've
> got 36 megs available and I should think BasicLinux would
> really enjoy the extra room.
Good point, Dale. I should have thought of this myself.
There are two possible approaches:
(1) Modify boot.bat to create a larger root filesystem.
This would be my preferred approach, but I haven't found
a way of doing it (yet). Loadlin automatically sets the
ramdisk size to the size of baslinux.gz. I've tried
inserting a ramdisk=8192 parameter but it had no effect.
(2) Create an additional ramdisk and mount it (eg. /mnt).
You can then add whatever you want in the /mnt directory
(up to the limits of your new ramdisk). You can even
put /mnt into your path. Mounting a extra ramdisk is
not difficult, but it does require an additional ramdisk
device (in /dev). Unfortunately, I only put one ramdisk
device in BasicLinux 1.0. I'll definitely put an extra
ramdisk device in BasicLinux 1.1 (available a day or two).
Thanks for your suggestions, Dale. They help to make
BasicLinux better.
Cheers,
Steven
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