Compressed root FS & DoC partition

I have a 16MB DoC 2000. I am able to boot make an ext2 FS on and boot via LILO.

Now, I want to be able to make it boot to a compressed root FS. I've created my own compressed root FS (about 6MB). I figured I'd partition the DoC into 2 parts of 8MB each. The first part is to hold the root FS (and possibly kernel) and the latter part an ext2 FS to store system's configuration files (to mount on /etc later).

I've tried both using dformat and nftl_format to format half of the DoC and mke2fs it. It just refuses to make the formatted half an ext2 unless the entire DoC is formatted.

Am I on the wrong path here? Can someone point me to the right direction? Thanks.

Dzuy

You could just leave the DoC formatted as a full 16MB parition and put a kernel, config, and compressed filesystem image in there. Then load the compressed image as an initrd and mount your runtime config after booting. It works on a 16MB IDE flash drive.

HTH,

-Kristian