The standard Debian initrd has grown enormously since the days of squeeze..
The devuan-minimal iso's initrd is 27.1 MB gzip-compressed, 18.6 xz-compressed and.. 186.1MB unpacked! Far as I know it's freed after switch_root but I assume the point here is what to do for very low-ram systems.. D On 14 May 2016 at 12:39, . fsmithred <fsmith...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was able to boot the minimal i386 in virtualbox with 175mb ram, but not > with 170 or less. > > I'm a little surprised that it wants all that. Back in the days of Squeeze, > I was able to boot an older version of Refracta (with e17, put together by > meandean) and whatever version of Antix was current then with only 64mb ram > on hardware. Has the initrd grown that much since then? > > > On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 7:32 AM, David Hare <davidah...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I look forward to your findings on initrd and RAM. Another point of >> interest, I repacked again with the uefi files (4MB) generated by the >> script I posted yesterday. It boots efi-mode in qemu >> (/sys/firmware/efi is present) >> >> D >> >> On 14 May 2016 at 12:05, KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> wrote: >> > On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 11:45:31AM +0100, David Hare wrote: >> >> KatolaZ, you may be interested to know, I repacked your iso to 199MB >> >> (with no actual system modifications) by using xz compression for the >> >> squashfs and initrd. The result booted fine in qemu. The extra >> >> decompression time is only a few seconds. >> >> >> > >> > Thanks David, >> > >> > this was something I had in the todolist, and is great to know that it >> > squeezes things so much. I am going to implement it for the next >> > release. Unfortunately, this will not solve the problem with RAM >> > requirement due to initrd, but I might have news on that front later >> > on today :) >> > >> > HND >> > >> > KatolaZ >> > >> > -- >> > [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] >> > [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] >> > [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] >> > [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] >> _______________________________________________ >> Dng mailing list >> Dng@lists.dyne.org >> https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng