On 8 Aug 00 at 9:40, Steven wrote:
>>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.
Maybe it would be easiest to simply place a "dummy" file consisting
of a single text character repeated sufficiently enough to create a
large enough file to expand the RAMdisk to the desired size. Being a
single text character it should compress to almost nothing (?) and not
bloat the distribution package to a significant degree. Then you
could simply delete it perhaps with the Linux equivalent of a DOS
batch file, perhaps even executing automatically upon startup. What
say?
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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