Archive for April 15th, 2008

Eee PC Systems Division compression principle

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

The motive for the experiment: 1. Restore CD-ROM only about 800 MB of things, but to install on the Eee PC into a 2.3 GB, 4G is no room for the 60%. 2. Zoning system did not undergo any treatment, is directly put up the entire system, a bit of a waste. 3. Have seen a lot of Live CD will be used this way squashfs compressed file system, and a few GB of CD into the CD-ROM things, that the same principle should be able to use it on the Eee PC. 4. The first is the original district was the second district by "cover" the forward, since it will not amend, not better compression system? Started out so compressed to restore the CD, my approach is as follows (this takes action Rich experience in Linux, do not imitate ~): 1. To restore the original CD-ROM P701L.img (or similar file) mounted up, first of all losetup-f P701L.img the image file to automatically set up a useless loop equipment , Eg. / Dev/loop0 2. Kpartx-av / dev/loop0 inside to open the partition, because there are a partition, so there will be / dev/mapper/loop0p1 established 3. The district to mount a A directory, for example, / mnt: ...