Stuart Winter wrote:
Thanks for finding this as I only test on SD or USB but all my final
installs are to NAND. But I use custom kernels and I need tidbits like this.
How are you creating the image to write to NAND?
Are you using the mini root fs and adding packages, or using the
installer?
I'd like to be able to ship some "unsupported" (because the
installer would need work in order to do any kind of NAND
installation) documents, if it makes sense -- do you have anything
documented that could be made publically available?
I am not using any installer. I develop with your slackware install on a 4gb SD
card (USB dongle) and when I am ready to roll my stuff together, I do a minimal
install onto another card with what I need (no development), roll a JFFS2 on my
Slackware desktop and make sure everything looks perfect then transfer that back
to the development SD card (ftp/nfs/whatever) and burn it into NAND typically
while the 4gb SD card is booted. I roll my own kernel and strip out anything
but what I essentially need (typically no modules except maybe a future need),
test booting from the 4gb SD card, then burn to NAND. I do not use initrd in my
final installs and then the plug just stands alone like it's supposed to be.
I can fit most stuff into 70mb leaving alot of the 512 NAND free for future. I
have compiled qemu and run an Intel slackware on ARM (for proprietary software
with no ARM counterpart) with the virtual disk in under 40mb. So that's 110mb
total. That leaves room for web server files or a database, etc.
Johnny O
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