Hello,

I have built an MP3 player box at home.  Well, I built one ages ago but the 
hard drive expired, so I made it network boot instead.

Is there a limit to the size of the initial ramdisk?

I have compiled my kernel with support for initrd, and the default size is 
4096kb, so I left it at that.  I then created a 4Mb file on the server 
which I can mount as the root fs and tweak it just so...

Unfortunately I don't seem to be able to include LCDproc, Lirc and IRMP3 in 
the same image with all the libraries and support for login etc. etc., so, 
can I just increase the size of the root fs file?  Does its size have to 
match exactly the size in the kernel option?

I had it all going without Lirc in less than 4Mb, but adding Lirc involves 
compiling more stuff into IRMP3, so it's too tight.  I am using busybox to 
keep things small, and I have a very minimal set of files to boot the 
machine with.  The kernel is 2.4.18 from Debian 3.0 distribution.

Thanks in advance,

Andy

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