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seawolf

Hi all --

I'm playing with TazLito recently and read a great doc ( http://community.slitaz.org/node/6 ) -- but it seems to assume I start from a Lo-RAM ISO, which I haven't! My root file-system has gotten over the 150MB mark, a little bigger than some low-spec systems I've tried it on can cope with =)

I don't quite understand what they do but I wonder if it is sufficient just to add the slitaz-loram-cdrom & squashfs packages to the distro-packages.list I already have?

It seems to work... but, as I say, I don't quite understand what the package does. Could anyone give a little overview?

Thanks =)

jozee

Hi seawolf,

Slitaz-loram flavor adds squashfs/cromfs(read)+ aufs/funionfs(write) functionality to slitaz. It patches rcS boot script and uses squashfs+lzma/cromfs for creating rootfs instead of just lzma. Unlike lzma, Squashfs+lzma archives are readable without the need to unarchive. So, the RAM requirements decreases exponentially. Aufs/funionfs create a layered filesystems (quite technical stuff). This allows you to install new packages after booting up your flavor. That's it.

You can also create large scalable flavors based on loram online using http://mirror.slitaz.org/pizza/

Thanks

seawolf

Thanks for the explanation @Jozee. In my LiveCD, I've included a customised rcS.conf myself... so that's the hunk failure :P I noticed it pulled in aufs etc. too.

I'll play with it more tomorrow or so, and close this if I don't have any more questions =)

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