Hi,
I'd like to ask if there is a way to resize the ramdisk on a Debian live cd,
either at boot time, or while running.
My problem is that I have a not very current machine with only 256 MB of memory
(that seemed to be plenty when I bought it), thus the ramdisk is set to only
128 MB, and it isn't very hard to fill it up when, for instance, installing
some extra packages with their dependencies (I've used a Lenny live cd a few
times to try things that I don't want to install on my regular system, e.g.,
packages from experimental). I have however a swap partition of ~1 GB, and
figured that I could dedicate part of it to the ramdisk -- the performance
isn't supposedly going to be worse than that of a regular on-disk partition. So
I tried booting with the "swapon" option: the swap partition is recognized and
used ("free" shows it) but the ramdisk is still set to 128 MB. I'm not sure
whether this should be considered a bug and I should file a report on the BTS,
or it is indeed the desired behavior. Anyway, can I get the ramdisk bigger?
By the way, may I ask if you plan to resume publishing autobuilt testing and
unstable live images? Trying experimental packages on a Lenny live cd has been
doable while there was little difference between Lenny and Sid, but now that
base packages have been upgraded (e.g., I see that Squeeze/Sid now have glibc
2.9, while Lenny has 2.7) it is going to be increasingly harder (given the
limited ramdisk space, it is probably already impossible for me).
Thank you
Gerardo
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