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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

sindi keesan wrote:

> DSL seems to already set up sound.  Maybe it has a movie player?

If it does, it is likely too simple to handle anything. LNX-BBC
(another business-card-CD-sized distribution) does not have a movie
player, only sox.

> Can you make a 256MB RAMdisk for use with BL2,

Probably. I don't know what the upper limit for ramdisk size in
Linux is.

> with a slightly modified kernel (this one does 4MB RAMdisks)
> like DSL does?

DSL does not use ramdisks. It uses ramfs (AKA shmfs/tmpfs) which
the BL kernels do not have. ramfs allows you to mount a virtual
filesystem. When you write to this filesystem, Linux takes memory
and uses it for storage. The ramdisk_size parameter allows you
to adjust size of ramdisks on bootup of Linux. Or, have a look at
rdev, which allows you to adjust default ramdisk size of a kernel
image.

David

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