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Steven, thank you for this, again. May be it would be useful
even to post it as first contribution to a BL3 FAQ on the website?

Christof


Q: Can someone tell me again how to make fs.img >bigger to make room
for all these add-ons ? I am unable, at the >moment, to make a
partition available to BL3, so it has to stay as a >loop system.

A:

1. If you have valuable things in fs.img, make a backup copy by
zipping it (using DOS).

2. Boot a ramdisk version of BasicLinux.  It is a bad >idea to
transfer fs.img from inside fs.img.

3. Rename fs.img to fs.old.

4. Create a new fs.img:
-----------------------------------------------
dd  if=/dev/zero
of=fs.img  bs=1024k  count=30 >mke2fs  fs.img
-----------------------------------------------
That will give you
a 30mb filesystem.

5. Mount fs.old and fs.img:
--------------------------
mount -o loop fs.old  /tmp
mount -o loop fs.img  /mnt
--------------------------
If you are running BL2 in the ramdisk, you will need to do
"insmod loop" first.  That is not necessary in BL3.

6. Sixth, get ready to transfer the contents of fs.old to fs.img:
--------
cd  /mnt
receive
--------

7. open a second virtual terminal (press ALT-F2) and
start the transfer:
---------
cd /tmp
send
localhost
*
---------

8. Eighth, exit the transfer routine (CTRL-C on both virtual
terminals) and umount both files. You are now ready to try booting
the new fs.img.


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