Re: Installing on a small root partition
Anil Gupte wrote:
Need help and advice.
I am trying to do a specialized install of Debian. Note that I have
done two or three before (in the past), but without knowing much about
what was going on - I mostly accepted the defaults.
This system happens to be in a place where there are frequent power
losses. So, my plan is to have a small root partition (say about
100MB), and make it a read-only partition. This way, there will be no
corruption on constant reboots. The apps, logs etc will be on a
separate partition. The read-only partition idea was a suggestion from
a Linux guru, as a solution for inodes etc being corrupted and the
system not booting properly.
I tried the Debian installer, but it fails, and I am pretty sure that is
because the root partition is small. Is there any way to tell the
installer where to put which files? I am installing from a DVD
containing Sarge.
Any suggestions will be welcome. Also, any advice on the read only root
partition will be helpful.
I am not sure that a read-only root partition will work. Your system
must be able to write to devices in /dev (which is mounted from
somewhere else if you use udev). As for installing on a small root
partition, check out DSL, which I believe has something like a 50 MB
base install.
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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