Subject: RE: smaller ramdisk
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Fri Aug 27 1999 - 09:30:21 MDT
>
> An individual actually did this and posted the resulting file on an ftp site
> but those were for ANS only. The last message I saw related to this was from
> Mr. Burcaw on 20 August saying, "We'll have some RS/6000 stuff up today :)."
> I might have missed the posting but I don't think I have seen anything more
> on the topic addressed since then. I have been waiting for one to be posted
> somewhere for the rs6000. If someone can tell me how to make the build or
> where to find a resource describing the procedure, I would appreciate the
> information.
>
Technical difficulties.. we're working on it :\
We have yet to get a floppy-sized zImage.initrd. We're close, but it's
just still a bit too big.
> Thank you for your help.
> Scott Hofmann
> scott@mapobject.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Burcaw [mailto:dburcaw@terraplex.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 5:20 PM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: smaller ramdisk
>
>
>
> Did you build the kernel/ramdisk? I just provided the ramdisk, and not the
> kernel.. I'll have that soon, but I wanted to get it out the door for
> people that wanted to roll their own.
>
> On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Mike Rutherford wrote:
>
> > Dan -
> >
> > I tried using the smaller ramdisk image file today on an
> > rs6000/p43/model 150 box. I'm not real sure I did this right, but
> > reading some other posts, I copied the gz file to diskette and tried:
> >
> > - boot while holding F8
> > - at '>' prompt, typing: setenv boot-device floppy:\zimage
> > - after above, typing: boot
> >
> > The system chews on the diskette for a while but I eventually end up
> > with an error:
> >
> > unrecognized Client Program formatstate not valid
> >
> > Do you, or anybody know what I'm doing wrong here?
> >
> > --
> > Mike Rutherford
> > Raleigh NC
> >
>
>
> Dan
>
> Yellow Dog Linux for Apple G3 and PowerPC
> email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
> website: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
>
>
>
>
Dan
Yellow Dog Linux for Apple G3 and PowerPC
email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
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