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Posted: Feb. 28 2006,03:06 QUOTE

Laptop B boots fine with the base option

Ok when I try mydsl-load /cdrom/bc.dsl I get the same errors so its obviously not using the ramdisk properly (/bin still on /knoppix). Could it be automatically using the lowram option?
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Posted: Feb. 28 2006,03:48 QUOTE

Ok both now have the same boot options...

Yet /bin is still mounted on /KNOPPIX on laptop B....

Is it lack of memory?

Can't you install mydsl extensions from the boot CD?
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Posted: Feb. 28 2006,04:01 QUOTE

its something to do with /etc/init.d/mkwriteable

it thinks its running out of room on the ramdisk when it building the symbolic links:

cp -srd /KNOPPIX/usr /ramdisk

...blah blah no room on disk...
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Posted: Mar. 01 2006,06:21 QUOTE

Hmm... You have 22MB RAM + 70MB of swap.

That is a fair amount of total space, but maybe you are running out of INodes in your ramdisk like another recent user.

My suspicion is that the RAM+SWAP hack that is used to increase the available size of your ramdisk is somehow not creating enough INodes, but I could be wrong.

I do know that it is difficult to produce enough INodes when trying to load a .dsl file on to a computer that only has 32MB of RAM and no swap.

So until some more light is shed on this one, my advice is to:

1) Only use *.uci or *.tar.gz type extensions on your laptop "B", or

2) Get more RAM for Laptop "B". 64MB is an ideal starting point, but even 40MB is good for small *.dsl extensions.

3) Do a full HD install on Laptop "B" instead of a frugal install.
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Posted: Mar. 02 2006,05:47 QUOTE

I'm using DSL 2.0

The problem is building the symbollic links to  /KNOPPIX/usr

its definitely an INode problem. Is there a limit to them?

Surely 16mb is enough to hold a hundred or two symbollic links?
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