On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 21:46 -0800, Steven Ringwald wrote: > Hi all! > > I have created a small FC4-based router installation on a hard-disk. I > would like to take this installation and burn it to a 256mB compact > flash. > > What I have been thinking of doing is formating the flash vfat, > installing isolinux on it, booting the kernel/initrd that way, and > then loading ext2 image-file that was created from my / directory. My > problem is, I haven't been able to get this to work yet. > > Does anyone know how to do this, or know of an easier/better way of > doing this? > > Thanks! > Steve > > Steve, Do you have a CF interface in your development/desktop? If so, then why not just copy your small installation directly to an ext2 or ext3 partition on the CF and grub-install grub as the boot loader? If you don't have a CF interface on your desktop, then either get one, or if your target can boot a CD... Boot up Knoppix, format the CF, copy your small installation to the CF over the network (SCP, NFS) then grub- install grub to the CF. You will most likely want to mount your root file system read-only and place all of your volatile data in a tmpfs file system to avoid shortening the life of the CF. You can also put your entire file system in a ramdisk (initrd) and run the system out of RAM. You will probably need a lot of RAM, but you don't have to worry about FSCK'ing the CF and it's probably faster without the CF I/O. CF to IDE adapters: http://mach5products.com/merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=CF We use one similar to the $19.95 version near the bottom of the page. Bob...
