From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JaF1J-0007SO-DR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:52:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3952FE0459; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:52:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from spore.ath.cx (66-191-143-114.static.roch.mn.charter.com [66.191.143.114]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23193E0459 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:52:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pascal.spore.ath.cx (pascal.spore.ath.cx [192.168.1.100]) by spore.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9F4A6E301 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:52:42 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:52:42 -0500 From: Dan Farrell To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] jffs2 on gentoo Message-ID: <20080314135242.2070d995@pascal.spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Spore, Ltd. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0d2f191d-adcd-4344-b1f3-74ea590ebc55 X-Archives-Hash: 21ea9add0e698e1f3f517ee2a7eb1aba On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:27:22 +0000 (UTC) James wrote: > Hello, > > I have a firewall that is built pretty minimally on a P3 and > and old 4 gig ide disk: > > /dev/hda3 2068348 1668104 400244 81% / > /dev/hda1 100728 40452 60276 41% /boot > > I have a 4 gig Cf card (sandisk) and a ide-cf card that should > make the CF card look like an ide hard drive. > > I've been searching for a wiki or something that describes the general > sequence of events to migrate the existing gentoo system to the > CF/ide disk, with no luck. > > I did find this page: > http://gentoo-wiki.com/Mounting_a_block_device_with_JFFS2 > > > But it seems vague(outdated) and missing many steps. Or > am I confused? I'm just looking for some outline or verbose > steps to replace an ide drive on a system with a CF/ide drive > and jffs2, as I have many systems that I'd like to do this with, > for core reliability on minimalistic gentoo servers. I plan > on having additional space on these systems (when needed) > via NFS. > > > Any help or ideas are greatly appreciated. > > > James > You shouldn't need to do anything special - just copy all files over exactly, and then set up GRUB on the CF card. Your biggest problem is you need to cut 75% from your installation. Delete portage, logs, and so on to do so. You can mount portage from NFS later. You might also have to uninstall X and all desktop environments to get it that small -- assuming you can do so, it's a good idea. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list