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From: "Jaswinder Singh" <jaswinder.singh@3disystems.com>
To: "Mike Galbraith" <mikeg@wen-online.de>
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        "Jaswinder Singh" <jaswinder.singh@3disystems.com>
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Subject: Re: Problem with Ramdisk in linux-2.4.1 
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 12:55:00 -0800
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Dear Mike ,


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Galbraith" <mikeg@wen-online.de>
To: "Jaswinder Singh" <jaswinder.singh@3disystems.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: Problem with Ramdisk in linux-2.4.1


> On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Jaswinder Singh wrote:
>
> > Dear Mike and others ,
> >
> > I am using compressed ramdisk , i can not turn off cramfs .
>
> (ok.. really is compressed)
>
> > my error messages are very strange and irreregular .
> >
> > i am getting 3 different kind of error messages :-
> >
> > invalid compressed format (err=1)
> > OR
> > invalid compressed format (err=2)
> > OR
> > crc error
> >
> > I am using gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93)
> >
> > But when i use same ramdisk with old kernel like 2.2.12 , it works fine
.
>
> Can you point me to a cramfs generation procedure?  (never used
> cramfs.. know where the docs are, but could use a small time warp)
>

make ramdisk as you normally do and then compress it by gzip .

You can see documentation on Ramdisk in Documentation/ramdisk.txt if you
have some time ;)

Best Regards,

Jaswinder.
--
These are my opinions not 3Di.


> -Mike
>
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