[Voyage-linux] customize the distro

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Hi,

I am very impressed with voyage linux  - so please excuse my huge post 
following.

I am wanting to customize the dirsto - and have found my way to 
http://www.voyage.hk/download/nightly/voyage-custom/ and downloaded the 
lastest nightly

I also have voyage-0.4.1.tar.bz2 - I have exploded this, chroot'ed and 
installed packages and tools (apache2 and varnish amoung other things - I 
am making a small caching applicance in a wrap or similar). I have all the 
functionality running under chroot.

I am trying to package up my distro - I am reading this 
:http://wiki.voyage.hk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=customization (and the old 
manual steps both from the wiki)

I am down to "6. package the custom distro in tarball"  - but am unsure of 
what to put in the " <customize profile dir>". I dont want to try to diff 
everything I have done - I'd just rather say "bundle this stuff I have 
made into a file ready for my CF".

where to from here?

I'd also like to test the boot process under something faster than 
flashing to CF - can I boot the generated image under vmware or something?

I am also keen to use a large CF - say 8gb - 256Mb for the distro, and the 
rest for cache storage - of large video files that rarely change (yes I 
understand too much writing will kill the CF - but I think it will rarely 
write, and do a lot of reads). How do I mount a slab of the CF on boot as 
a RW filesystem ? on my wrap I can see 8Mb on /rw - how do I make that 
like a few GBytes?

ps. I have just subscribed to the list, so perhaps reply to both for now 
would be nice.


SCOTT FARRELL
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