From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailout.fastq.com ([204.62.193.66]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.14 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 19ZEWi-000828-53 for ; Sun, 06 Jul 2003 19:46:20 +0100 Received: from aquaman (foobar@russ.gothicfury.com [65.39.81.227]) h66IkXD68167 for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2003 11:46:33 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from Russ.Dill@asu.edu) From: Russ Dill To: Gregg C Levine In-Reply-To: <000001c343e5$e6bb1d20$239efea9@who5> References: <000001c343e5$e6bb1d20$239efea9@who5> Message-Id: <1057517262.2658.292.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 06 Jul 2003 11:47:42 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: RE: File systems and Disk on Chips Reply-To: Russ.Dill@asu.edu List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , > Okay that makes more sense. But now how do I go about creating the " > block filesystem on top of NFTL", that I need to use? basically use nftl_format with the proper offset, then modprobe nftl, fdisk /dev/nftla (Optional), mkfs.ext2 /dev/nftla (or nftla1, 2, etc if fdisked) > For example, I've gotten with my test image, as far as creating a > floppy disk image, and booting that, inside the Bochs emulator. It > worked, the test kernel launched, and told me that the kernel did what > it was supposed to do. > > My other problem, is that I still can not get the utilities inside > that directory to properly compile, they always break when trying to > create the ones that manage the JFFS2 stuff. I am hoping that the > snapshot from yesterday has been fixed, but I don't know. don't know what to say, worked for me, but at this point, I just use prepackaged binaries from my distro anyway. -- Russ Dill