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

> > Yes.  It can be changed when you compile the kernel.
> >
> > > Would Sindi be able to change this figure, eg. to 8192

> This is great. So when Sindi finds some time to create
> a custom kernel for me she also can add the necessary
> capacity of the RAM disk. In the meantime I can work on the
> baslinux.gz with the applications and scripts.

Sindi will recompile with 8MB RAMDISK but maybe wait until you have tested 
the existing 'lc' kernel, in case something else needs changing at the 
same time.  I did not even try booting with it.

http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/2.4.31/bzimaglc.431

> Could you please explain me just one more thing: How do I create a
> new baslinux.gz file with let me say 8192 kb. Until now I only
> modified existing RAM disk versions. I know how to mount them with
> the loop option. But I have never created a new one with a different
> size.

I think to make an 8MB baslin, you create an empty file

dd if=/dev/zero of=baslinux2 bs=1024 count=8   ???

and copy files to it (cp -a *) from baslinux, then rename baslinux to 
something else and rename baslinux2 to baslinux and gzip it.  I used this 
method to make an 8MB loop linux to put on my camera and a 100MB loop 
linux to put on a computer without a free partition.

dd is also used to make a swapfile, followed by mkswap (?) and swapon

> Christof
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