On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 5:41 PM, BALLABIO GERARDO
<gerardo.balla...@mpsgr.it> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd like to ask if there is a way to resize the ramdisk on a Debian live cd,
> either at boot time, or while running.
>
> My problem is that I have a not very current machine with only 256 MB of
> memory (that seemed to be plenty when I bought it), thus the ramdisk is set
> to only 128 MB, and it isn't very hard to fill it up when, for instance,
> installing some extra packages with their dependencies (I've used a Lenny
> live cd a few times to try things that I don't want to install on my regular
> system, e.g., packages from experimental). I have however a swap partition of
> ~1 GB, and figured that I could dedicate part of it to the ramdisk -- the
> performance isn't supposedly going to be worse than that of a regular on-disk
> partition. So I tried booting with the "swapon" option: the swap partition is
> recognized and used ("free" shows it) but the ramdisk is still set to 128 MB.
> I'm not sure whether this should be considered a bug and I should file a
> report on the BTS, or it is indeed the desired behavior. Anyway, can I get
> the ramdisk bigger?
>
> By the way, may I ask if you plan to resume publishing autobuilt testing and
> unstable live images? Trying experimental packages on a Lenny live cd has
> been doable while there was little difference between Lenny and Sid, but now
> that base packages have been upgraded (e.g., I see that Squeeze/Sid now have
> glibc 2.9, while Lenny has 2.7) it is going to be increasingly harder (given
> the limited ramdisk space, it is probably already impossible for me).
>
> Thank you
> Gerardo
>
>
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There is a boot parameter for this,
see:http://www.nabble.com/increasing-ramdisk-tc20833699.html
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