-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 August 2004 20:01, Mike Westkamper wrote: > I am working on making Linux (FC2) run on a flash disk. Cool project... but you will need a 512MB minimum I would think. > To avoid the write-cycle limits on the flash it must be configured without > a swap drive and remove any extraneous logging. I have eliminated the swap > partition, however I am not sure what logs are created and how to eliminate > them or direct them to /dev/nul. The objective is not to beat the flash to > death since there is a 1 million write cycle limit. The one way I know would work is to create a small ramdisk during init and use mount --bind to mount it over /var/log > I am also trying to make the kernel static, w/o modules, to keep the speed > up as the flash is slow. Here my attempts have been less that acceptable. I > constantly get errors on the build and can't seem to eliminate all the > modules. Are you sure that loading a few modules is going to make the slightest bit of noticeable difference? > Finally, to use some sort of sleep mode to avoid the re-boot delay on the > re-application of power. Once developed the system will not ever see any > different configuration. Here I can't find much information on how to do > this. ACPI handles this on modern systems, but it is really cranky about which BIOS you have. > Any pointers on any of these subjects will be greatly appreciated. If not > already done, I will gladly post a HOW-TO when done. - -Andy - -- Automatic actions for USB cameras, cardreaders, memory sticks, MP3 players http://warmcat.com/usbautocam -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBM3xejKeDCxMJCTIRAgnmAKCRzOcC7t5gtIACZKsrT0fCE2IjpQCeJC4k WWmonvnQjjwFxRMiXFL1qfQ= =SWL0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
