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Title: 3.5.3 Free flash Size After Flash?
Post by: dansawyer on May 19, 2005, 09:26:01 am

Getting 3.5.3 installed has been problematic; mostly due to my assumptions and errors. That said what is the free ram after a flash? For the first several flashs it was about 500k. On the last flash it is 900k. Which one is 'right'? What went wrong on the other one? How can this be tested?

Thanks,
Dan

Title: 3.5.3 Free flash Size After Flash?
Post by: lardman on May 19, 2005, 09:35:42 am

Free RAM, or free flash space?


Si

Title: 3.5.3 Free flash Size After Flash?
Post by: dansawyer on May 19, 2005, 09:47:10 am

you are correct - free flash space

Title: 3.5.3 Free flash Size After Flash?
Post by: CoreDump on May 19, 2005, 11:38:54 am

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you are correct - free flash space
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Did you run "ipkg update" on the ROM w/ only 500kb of free space?
The free space is constant and will always be the same after flashing identical ROMs.

Title: 3.5.3 Free flash Size After Flash?
Post by: lardman on May 19, 2005, 12:46:32 pm

I changed the topic title for you.

Si

Title: 3.5.3 Free flash Size After Flash?
Post by: dansawyer on May 20, 2005, 09:39:01 am

Thanks, that explanes it. The flash leaves about 900k. ipkg update leaves about 450.

Dan

Title: 3.5.3 Free flash Size After Flash?
Post by: JohnKiniston on May 20, 2005, 10:49:21 pm

You can free up ROM space if your willing to do a ipkg update before you use ipkg.

Edit your /etc/ipkg.conf and add in

lists_dir ext /var/lists

and then make that directory

I also edited the script that makes /var and added
mkdir -p /var/lists  
chmod 0755 /var/lists