Good point - FC2, etc is pointed to the desktop/server market.
Did you find a way to restart with re-boot?
-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of David Martin Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 3:27 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Running Linux on a flash drive
You are in for a long haul starting from FC2, it was not designed for this. When I need a static image (like for a flash disk), I start with LFS (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/).
Its pretty easy and you learn alot. I even created a version that never writes to flash (uses ramdisks).
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:01:18 -0400, Mike Westkamper mjwestkamper@weiinc.com wrote:
I am working on making Linux (FC2) run on a flash disk.
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.
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.
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.
Any pointers on any of these subjects will be greatly appreciated. If not already done, I will gladly post a HOW-TO when done.
Mike
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