File systems and Disk on Chips

[Russ Dill]

> Okay that makes more sense. But now how do I go about creating the "
> block filesystem on top of NFTL", that I need to use? 

basically use nftl_format with the proper offset, then modprobe nftl,
fdisk /dev/nftla (Optional), mkfs.ext2 /dev/nftla (or nftla1, 2, etc if
fdisked)

> For example, I've gotten with my test image, as far as creating a
> floppy disk image, and booting that, inside the Bochs emulator. It
> worked, the test kernel launched, and told me that the kernel did what
> it was supposed to do. 
> 
> My other problem, is that I still can not get the utilities inside
> that directory to properly compile, they always break when trying to
> create the ones that manage the JFFS2 stuff. I am hoping that the
> snapshot from yesterday has been fixed, but I don't know.

don't know what to say, worked for me, but at this point, I just use
prepackaged binaries from my distro anyway.

-- 
Russ Dill <Russ.Dill at asu.edu>