Hi,

I'm a big fan of the NSLU2-Linux project so I've been doing some developments for this platform for the last three years. In order for the end users to test my applications, I initially created an USB image with everything bundled into it. Then, they only had to download the image and decompress (dd) it into an USB pendrive with capacity equal or greater than 4 GB. The fact is that this has brought me lots of problems in the practice since my Web server hardly accepts long file transfers. Moreover, flash spaces beyond 4GB are wasted.

As result, I'm now considering a different approach but I'll need some help as I don't know how to do it. Well, I've thought that I could maybe create an USB disk image only with the root file system partition. Then, the first time a script runs, it creates a home partition and formats it into the rest of the space available in the pendrive.

There is maybe some command-line alternative to fdisk without having the user to interact during the format process... ??

Any fresh idea is welcome !!

Thanks in advance.

Daniel.

It seems that you can sort of script fdisk by storing all the key strokes in a text file and redirecting the input. Have a look at this article.

Out of curiosity is there any reason your not just providing your application[s] as something that can be installed onto OpenSlug or DebianSlug?

Thanks redgobling for the link. This could be a possible solution.

My application is in fact a bit more complex than a simple binary. It needs lighttpd, PHP, SQLite and a bunch of config files installed at given lotations. Moreover, current users (of my solution) typically know nothing about linux so I need to simplify them the install process as much as possible.

Thanks again.

Daniel.

perhaps make a cript to detecct available space on the disk and then make a file to use the whole space mounted like home .

perhaps the puppy linux saving fs into a file with the size you want to selelct would help ?
sorry im just giving some idea now cuz i dont know uch about fdisk or the tools you mentioned and i mentioned ..