Searching for more information I am now reading the raw text files that must once have been part of a wiki.<div><br>The file <a href="http://wiki.voyage.hk/feature_request.txt">http://wiki.voyage.hk/feature_request.txt</a> contains, among much else, this fragment:</div>
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Please add dd/physdiskwrite-ready images for alix boards to the download sections using the default settings of the voyage-install script. Different disk sizes would be nice too, e.g. 512MB, 1GB, 2GB and 4GB. Compressed images turn out to be 30MB-40MB.<br>
This would make it a lot easier for many people getting the greatest linux for these boards up and running. Especially for people running Windows on their PC.</blockquote><div><br></div>I understand that current scripts are not made for this, but I think it might be rather easy to solve, at least if the setup is done from Linux.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Make an image with the default system, whatever that is, an image that can be transferred to a CF or other medium. Mount this medium, run the slightly modified setup script that will do the same changes but directly inside the (soon to be) bootable flash medium.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The scripts would no longer have to check the CF, ask for a mount point, partition or format it<i> (and maybe I could get to choose the filesystem I want, i.e. ext4 without journal instead of ext2)</i>, or copy files from one place to another.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The scripts would, as now, set the host name, active network interfaces, etc. If grub settings need to be changed it should be possible to run update-grub as usual.</div><div><br></div><div>---</div><div>
About ext4: I read somewhere that ext4 is recommended over ext2 for flash devices too.</div><div><br></div><div>I use '<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">mkfs.ext4 -L whatever /dev/sdx1 && tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 -O ^has_journal -o noatime</font>' to create the root fs on the CF, and I am not too happy about Voyage scripts complaining that it is not ext2 and insisting on reformatting it.</div>
<div>---</div><div><br>Johan Adler<br><a href="http://nyfiken.org/">http://nyfiken.org/</a></div>