Re: [debian-knoppix] Suse style Framebuffer boot
David GLAUDE wrote:
> I am not sure what this make file is all about
When all is set up correctly (see make init)
its about just calling "make iso" or "make rw" to master or
burn a complete remastered CD-RW...
> Could you explain what you did related to Knoppix and Translucency
It is related to Knoppix only that it uses its cloop/compressloop
tools to squeeze about 1.8GB on CD and that you may have a
preconfigured, adapted, autohardwareconfiguring standard Debian system
within the "linuxroot" dir (it should also work with any other
distribution).
This is how it works:
In the CD-ROM-system the cdrom device is mounted as /
The idea with translucency is that on bootup the ram-disk(tmpfs on /tmp)
is initially empty (consuming no memory) but that you can change
any file as usual on the system:
passwd ; vi /etc/hosts ; touch /var/lib/locatedb
while translucency cares that changes are written to e.g. /tmp/etc/shadow
...
which is easy to backup. It is also thinkable
to mount /dev/hda1 or /dev/loop0 or server:/rwshare to /tmp
by some boot-option thus having "persistent home & config" at no cost.
> ~wiedeman/development/translucency-0.5.8.tar.gz
Unluckily as the 0.5.8 version number suggests, translucency is not
finished.
If you "rm /etc/hosts" you will get to see the originial file there
afterwards again and removing it another time will fail with -EROFS then.
Problems with symlinks and ".." exist until someone cares for that code.
So at the current state installing an .deb may or may not work.
(Uninstalling will not yet - but why should anyone want that)
As the CDROM is mounted to / ejecting it would not be possible - so I
set lockdoor=0 for the kernel's cdrom.c which results in the behaviour
that most windows users would expect anyway. Want to eject and turn off.
best regards
Bernhard M. Wiedemann
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