Hi, The ppc embedded faq at http://members.nbci.com/greyhams/linux points you to http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO-4.html for instructions on making ramdisks. Actually this link is broken (I just found out). You might try
http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Bootdisk-HOWTO/index.html which works for me. If all fails, dd if=/dev/zero of=myimage bs=1k count=<size in kb> mke2fs myimage mount myimage <mountpoint in your directory structure> copy the files you want on your ramdisk to <mountpoint in your directory structure> umount <mountpoint in your directory structure> gzip myimage And you should have a valid ramdisk. The steps above are from memory. If some of the command do not work properly it might because of missing options. In all cases check the manpage for these commands. Hope this helps, K.D. Example -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Furse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30. n?vember 2000 17:09 To: Linux Embedded List (E-mail) Subject: Ramdisk image Hi everyone, How do I go about creating a ramdisk image for an embedded PPC system? I downloaded a pre-built image, which is now giving me problems, and I would like to create a new one. I have downloaded fileutils, but I have been unable to cross-compile them (we use RedHat x86 host, with gcc). Is there a patch or something? Is there a method/HOWTO/documentation somewhere about how to do this? Many thanks is advance, Dan Furse ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
