On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Pablo Vasquez <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings. > I have been following cbrake's instructions (which are also in > oe/conf/machine/cm-x270.conf) to build an angstrom-minimal-image with uclibc > for use as a ramdisk. But the resulting image is always too big to fit in > the NOR. > Is there a "tidy" way of generating a minimal-image for use as a ramdisk > which does not have a kernel image in it? This looks like it would decrease > the image's size quite enough to get it into the NOR. > Would this result in any broken stuff? > > thanks. > > Pablo. > _______________________________________________ > Angstrom-distro-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users > Hi Pablo,
there are two knobs to reduce the size of minimal-image: change DISTRO and use minimal or even micro * and/or * instead of minimal-image use an initramfs-* image (uclibc or even klibc). This kind of rootfs seems more suited to your purpose. Regards Andrea _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
