The standard Debian initrd has grown enormously since the days of squeeze..

The devuan-minimal iso's initrd is 27.1 MB gzip-compressed, 18.6
xz-compressed and.. 186.1MB unpacked!

Far as I know it's freed after switch_root but I assume the point here
is what to do for very low-ram systems..


D

On 14 May 2016 at 12:39, . fsmithred <fsmithred@???> wrote:
> I was able to boot the minimal i386 in virtualbox with 175mb ram, but not
> with 170 or less.
>
> I'm a little surprised that it wants all that. Back in the days of Squeeze,
> I was able to boot an older version of Refracta (with e17, put together by
> meandean) and whatever version of Antix was current then with only 64mb ram
> on hardware. Has the initrd grown that much since then?
>
>
> On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 7:32 AM, David Hare <davidahare@???> wrote:
>>
>> I look forward to your findings on initrd and RAM. Another point of
>> interest, I repacked again with the uefi files (4MB) generated by the
>> script I posted yesterday. It boots efi-mode in qemu
>> (/sys/firmware/efi is present)
>>
>> D
>>
>> On 14 May 2016 at 12:05, KatolaZ <katolaz@???> wrote:
>> > On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 11:45:31AM +0100, David Hare wrote:
>> >> KatolaZ, you may be interested to know, I repacked your iso to 199MB
>> >> (with no actual system modifications) by using xz compression for the
>> >> squashfs and initrd. The result booted fine in qemu. The extra
>> >> decompression time is only a few seconds.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Thanks David,
>> >
>> > this was something I had in the todolist, and is great to know that it
>> > squeezes things so much. I am going to implement it for the next
>> > release. Unfortunately, this will not solve the problem with RAM
>> > requirement due to initrd, but I might have news on that front later
>> > on today :)
>> >
>> > HND
>> >
>> > KatolaZ
>> >
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