Re: running livemedia-creator with 1GB

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On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:38:47PM -0500, David A. Marlin wrote:

> Interesting.  So it uses the amount of RAM on the host in its
> calculation, but not the swap on the host?

Correct, the disk it is using is a disk image, not the host's disk.

> Understood.  Ours is probably not a typical use-case.  This
> particular image is for the Raspberry Pi.  We try to create a small
> rootfs image that can be downloaded and copied to flash (small size
> is important, typically ~1GB).  On first boot we grow the / (root)
> partition to fill the flash device (whatever its size) and set up a
> swap file (user specified size) rather than create a dedicated swap
> partition.  Adding a swap partition of 500 MB adds 500MB to the
> image size to be downloaded and copied to flash (~50% larger).
> 
> I guess if we ran this on a builder that had 2GB memory this would
> not even be an issue.  Either way, we can work around it.

Can you use a raw filesystem image, or does it need to be partitioned?
When the .iso is made it copies the / out of the partitioned image into
squashfs.img for use on the iso. I could do something like that, but
without the iso step.

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Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)

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