Hello All!
I downloaded today, and am a new first time user. The live cd boots OK, all hardware seems to be found OK. However, I must resize the default 500MiB RAMdisk and my reading and searches uncover no help. To explain:
The machine is a Lenovo X230t with 16GB physical RAM. NO HD!
After boot, the system reports over 12GB physical RAM unused.
I want to continue the use of a Live CD in this way and do not wish to use a HD.
(I am coming from the world of Puppylinux, FD64)
I have looked in every place and way I can think of and I can not find how to enlarge the default 500MiB drive to use all my physical RAM.
Thanks in advance!
Hi
You would need to use a USB device or SD Card then for persistence. It won’t however be able to update… Why not just install to USB or SD card if not wanting to use your internal storage?
Thanks for your reply…
I do boot from a locked SD card for FD64. In that environment, I have access to sufficient physical RAM to do anything I wish, download and save to RAMdrive, etc. Afterwards, I test and if I wish to transfer to external persistent storage I do so. This is my established personal preference.
So, the first difficulty to be solved with 13.2 is to find a way to save to the physical RAM I have installed. With that behind, I will look forward to solving any difficulties with booting from SD with a clean iso. Booting from DVD is rather slow and USB3 from SD is much better! lol!
Thanks again for your reply.
Cheers!
Hi
Then I think you will find SUSE Studio perfect for your needs in creating not only the apps you want present, access to update and imaging as a preload image to the SD card… https://susestudio.com/
You should then be able to tweak the ram image size for your needs which seems to be your requirements by modifying the configs and saving as required.
On 2014-11-30 03:06, DrDeaf wrote:
>
> Thanks for your reply…
> I do boot from a locked SD card for FD64. In that environment, I have
> access to sufficient physical RAM to do anything I wish, download and
> save to RAMdrive, etc. Afterwards, I test and if I wish to transfer to
> external persistent storage I do so. This is my established personal
> preference.
But it is not openSUSE preference
You have to fight against the developers design. Guessing, you have to
recreate the live image with your own settings. Guessing again, try to
find boot-time parameters. I have not seen a list, but maybe there is
one to adjust the ramdisk size.
Notice that the first thing the live image, when “burned” into a usb
stick, does after the first boot, is claim the rest of the usb stick,
and format it as ext4 for use as persistent storage, no matter what you
wish. There maybe a switch to impede it, but you have to do it on the
first and all subsequent boots, manually. You forget it once, and the
persistent space is created.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
