Hi,
I have found the following works well, i have not run X from CF but
suspect it will work - provided the flash disk has enough space to fit X
on it.
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For a 256Mb flash card
a - / - 60m
d - /var - 11m
e - /usr - rest
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Once installed reboot, install any required pkgs (rsync being one) and
edit fstab:
Change from:
/dev/wd0e /usr ffs rw,nodev 1 2
To:
/dev/wd0e /usr ffs ro,nodev 1 2
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Setting up /mfs/var
Unless apache is required remove /var/www
Create:
/mfs/var
Rsync accross log files:
/usr/local/bin/rsync -vorpug /var/ /mfs/var
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Setting up /mfs/dev
mkdir /mfs/dev
cp /dev/MAKEDEV /mfs/dev
cd /mfs/dev
./MAKEDEV all
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Create ram disk for /var (47mb), /tmp (15 mb) and /dev (500K) by adding
mfs mounts to fstab:
(note mb sizes are approx):
swap /var mfs rw,-s=102400,nodev,noatime,noexec,nosuid 0 0
swap /dev mfs rw,-s=2048,-i=128,nosuid 0 0
swap /tmp mfs rw,-s=32768,nodev,noatime,noexec,nosuid 0 0
Note for dev the inode number is increased to handle the number of device nodes.
So complete fstab:
/dev/wd0a / ffs ro 1 1
/dev/wd0e /usr ffs ro,nodev 1 2
#/dev/wd0d /var ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2
swap /var mfs rw,-s=102400,nodev,noatime,noexec,nosuid 0 0
swap /dev mfs rw,-s=2048,-i=128,nosuid 0 0
swap /tmp mfs rw,-s=32768,nodev,noatime,noexec,nosuid 0 0
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Now need to setup automatic population of mfs mounts on reboot in /etc/rc
comment out line number 202:
mount -uw /
under rm -f /fastboot (about line 203 on 3.9) add:
# Copy dev files before anything else
cp -Rp /mfs/dev/* /dev
comment out line 261 - this is required as /var is mounted twice
otherwise:
mount /var >/dev/null 2>&1
and add below it:
printf "copying files to mfs ..."
/usr/local/bin/rsync -orpug /mfs/var/ /var
echo " done."
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On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Steve wrote:
Hi all,
I am currently using 3.8 release with a basic X install and rdesktop as a
thin term
for a windows terminal server.
I would like to migrate this to compact flash or similar.
Flashdist and flashboot dont seem to be able to accomodate this.
Am I missing something or are there alternatives.
Thanks,
Steve
