On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 10:26 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Sep 27 2007 12:19, CyberOrg wrote: > > > >> seems to have a similar method with a squashfs image. We usually boot > >> the diskless client and run one app all the time. So accessing the > >> server is no issue. Out of curiosity, how small could the image be? On > >> thinstation, with a graphic desktop, our image is < 8 MB. I would love > >> to use suse as the base as I am more familiar with it than with > >> thinstation. > > > >That sure is awesome(< 8 MB) we would love your contribution in > >trimming down our image which is currently 160MB squashfs. Although it > >could be reduced, we are trying to get everything working well first, > >reducing the size is not very high on our priorities. > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3020209 Sep 8 21:06 > initrd-2.6.22.3-ccj53_lh-default.cpio.gz > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1612192 Aug 29 19:47 vmlinuz-2.6.22.3-ccj53-default > > Nothing special really. Just tweak mkinitrd so much that it > sets up an aufs, which is really just a few kilobytes extra > compared to the regular initrds mkinitrd produces.
So, these files boot the system and result in mounting the rest via NFS? I need to see how the remote system has the stuff to be mounted via NFS set up. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobl: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
