From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from natpool.ud.com ([65.112.245.211] helo=jikku-lt.corp.ud.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 16j6VG-0005rf-00 for ; Thu, 07 Mar 2002 22:36:50 +0000 Received: from infinity-studios.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by jikku-lt.corp.ud.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g27Mawh01395 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:36:58 -0600 Message-ID: <3C87EB8A.7070305@infinity-studios.com> Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 16:36:58 -0600 From: Dzuy Nguyen MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Compressed root FS & DoC partition Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: I have a 16MB DoC 2000. I am able to boot make an ext2 FS on and boot via LILO. Now, I want to be able to make it boot to a compressed root FS. I've created my own compressed root FS (about 6MB). I figured I'd partition the DoC into 2 parts of 8MB each. The first part is to hold the root FS (and possibly kernel) and the latter part an ext2 FS to store system's configuration files (to mount on /etc later). I've tried both using dformat and nftl_format to format half of the DoC and mke2fs it. It just refuses to make the formatted half an ext2 unless the entire DoC is formatted. Am I on the wrong path here? Can someone point me to the right direction? Thanks. Dzuy