Re: debian on openbrick

2003-01-03 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 06:36:32PM -0500, Bao C. Ha wrote: > Personally, I don't think it is safe to mount the compactflash as > the "live" root filesystem. It is not designed to have that many > write-cycles as a regular hard disk. So, even with a larger size > compactflash, what we are doing w

Re: debian on openbrick

2003-01-02 Thread Bao C. Ha
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 02:09:38PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Hi Joey, > That's why I keep my whole root filesystem mounted read-only. My compact > flash is only written to on clean shutdowns (rare..) when I rsync > /var/log and other persistent state back to it, and when I upgrade or do > some sysa

Re: debian on openbrick

2002-12-31 Thread Joey Hess
Bao C. Ha wrote: > What I did in the article is for the OpenBrick-E. The OpenBrick-E > has 256M RAM in the default configuration, compared to the 128M > RAM OpenBrick. My next step would be to uncompress the cloop- > based filesystem and mount its entirety on the tempfs. Next, I > would be able

Re: debian on openbrick

2002-12-30 Thread Bao C. Ha
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 12:44:13PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Hi Joye, > I read with interest your article > (http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4540125636.html) on how you > crammed Debian into a 32 mb compact flash on an openbrick E, as I did > the same thing, but with a very different techniq

debian on openbrick

2002-12-30 Thread Joey Hess
I read with interest your article (http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4540125636.html) on how you crammed Debian into a 32 mb compact flash on an openbrick E, as I did the same thing, but with a very different technique on my openbrick. My openbrick serves as a wireless gateway, doing ppp dial