Re: Size of kernels
This is a discussion on Re: Size of kernels within the mailing.openbsd.tech forums, part of the OpenBSD category; --> Hannah Schroeter wrote: >Hello! > >On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 01:50:43PM +0100, Rickard Dahlstrand wrote: > > >>Hi, ...
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 Re: Size of kernels Hannah Schroeter wrote: >Hello! > >On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 01:50:43PM +0100, Rickard Dahlstrand wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >> > > > >>RAM is getting cheaper and the devices I'm using right now have at least >>256 MB of ram. The ramdisk-kernels have many advantages for the systems >>I build the limited ramdisk-size is making it hard to get things done. >>When using Flashboot and the ramdisk kernels you have a limit of >>currently 14 MB if I have understand Damien's text from the flashboot >>readme-file. Is this limit static or it there something that can be changed. >> >> > >Perhaps you could have a relatively small ramdisk as root filesystem, >and later mount a MFS and populate it from somewhere, e.g. a readonly fs >from flash (mount_mfs ... -P) or by restore(8)ing a (optionally >gzipped/bzip2'ed) dump. > > Yes, that's the approach I'm using now, but it would be so nice to have more stuff in the default dist. like Perl, Apache etc. Rickard.      |
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