make toolchain barfs

Armijn Hemel armijn@uulug.nl
Thu Dec 30 23:56:17 CET 2004


On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 01:18:27AM +0100, Faré wrote:
> > I want to add a few packages (wireless-tools, ssh client). The question
> > is, to what size can I reasonably expand the ramdisk? (time to dig into
> > NBD I guess).
> I don't know how much you can expand the ramdisk AND get useful things
> done -- depends on your usage pattern. For bootstrapping purpose, this
> should be OK to get things going and copy things to CF. As for NBD,
> you might need to update the driver or something -- I never could get
> it to work with the kernel we have.

Well, NBD works for me (I can successfully mount devices), but of course,
swapping doesn't work (because current versions of NBD don't allow for
it).

armijn

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