On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Lonnie Abelbeck
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
> On Sep 14, 2008, at 4:19 AM, Michael Keuter wrote:
>
> >> I'm just uploading some new images to my website. Some of these
> >> are the
> >> regular 'runnix' files where the tar ball contains the appropriate
> >> astlinux-XXX.run, run.conf etc files and some are complete images
> >> that
> >> you can simply dd to a new CF. The complete images have a naming
> >> convention of cf-0.6-XXXX-ARCH.img.gz
> >>
> >> Darrick
> >> --
> >
> > Hi Darrick,
> >
> > thanks for the new images. But in the new 1958-geni586-image the
> > "/oldroot/cdrom/" directory is empty after reboot. That means you
> > cannot update, whithout plugging the CF-card out.
> > It also seems that the trunk-images (in my case 1907) has precedence
> > over the 0.6 version. That could be a naming convention. You
> > mentioned a "ver" file some time ago. How is the syntax for that?
> >
> > Michael
>
> Actually this is a new feature, Darrick added the polishing touches to
> the initrd.img, which includes unmounting the FAT16 (vfat) runnix
> partition after the 'run' file is loaded into memory. Cleaning up.
>
> I
Why is this beneficial? Seams to me to be making things more
confusing/harder?
Also... I'm still waiting for someone to tell me how to increase the size of
the ramdisk (see my email to this list from yesterday). I've googled to the
cows come home and played with various menuconfig settings, but cannot
figure it out.
Thanks
David
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