Re: live DVD and module-builder

Thank you for you help :)

I decided to give it another try. I added the option
"-allow-limited-size" to the make-iso script I have here and it worked.
I tested it with vmware and is working fine so far. I'll try on Qemu as
well.

Regards,

Gabriel.

Em Qua, 2007-04-04 às 20:34 +0200, Jure Cuhalev escreveu:
> On Apr 4, 2007, at 8:19 PM, Gabriel wrote:
> 
> > When I tried to use "module-builder -b source_dir base/mainmod/ 
> > mmod.mod"
> > it starts normaly and suddenly gives my kernel a crash! Lots of kernel
> > panic messages for my delight ;-P . After knocking my head a few times
> > and reading the man pages for create_compressed_fs I decided to use a
> > real file instead of stdin/stdout. So I create an iso from the  
> > directory
> > and then compress this iso with ccfs. Now it works. Next issue ...
> >
> 
> Try running a full night full memory test suite memtest86 I believe  
> it's called. Userland application shouldn't be able to crash the kernel.
> 
> > I tried to use "make-iso base_dir myimage.iso", but I think that
> > make-iso doesn't like to deal with large files ;-P . I won't do  
> > it's job
> > and keeps complainning about something related to "file bigger than
> > 2Gib" and "no -allow-limited-size option given" .
> >
> 
> You can't really go over this with a single compressed file. See for  
> example wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 
> ISO_9660#The_2_GB_file_size_limit
> 
> What you could do is modify morphix base to overlay two 2Gb  
> filesystems. I'm not sure what tax would this have on memory. Your  
> other option would be to put the big media files on the CD itself and  
> somehow link to them from your system.
> 
> regards,
> Jure Cuhalev
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
> Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your
> opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash
> http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV
> _______________________________________________
> Morphix-devel mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/morphix-devel


-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your
opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash
http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV