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Originally Posted by darksine
Anyone know how to figure out how much space a rom is taking up after (or before) you build it? I just want to get an idea of what I can and cannot put in the rom before it goes over the size limit (128 right? or is it 64?)
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64. I figured that out the hard way last night building my own ROM (coming soon!) and getting no further than the green Welcome screen. There just ain't enough room in a ROM for .NET 2, Pocket Plus, Spb Diary and SpbWeather, even if you take out stuff like Transcriber and Powerpoint. Feh.
When you're building your ROM, you can see the overall size of it between running CreateOS and CreateROM. After running CreateOS, select boot.hv, boot.rgu and the dump folder and right click, then Properties. Ignore the Size: line. You're looking for the Size on disk: line because that shows how much space the files really take up including file system overhead. That number has to be 64.0 MB or smaller for the ROM to boot. If you're over, don't even bother running CreateROM.bat. You need to pare down first.
Note that you can shave off about 1MB from the dump folder just by deleting the T9 language DLLs (if you've already removed IntelliPad, and why wouldn't you) and unneeded gif and jpg files.