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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> 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.

If we can get the computer to boot again we will try Ubuntu once - but 
that takes so long to load I am better off with BL2, lots of insmods, and 
parport zip BL3.

 >
> > 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.

Maybe next year, this is too much over my head.

> David
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