Re: Installing on a small root partition
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 09:53 +0100, David Goodenough wrote:
> On Monday 03 July 2006 07:10, Anil Gupte wrote:
> > BlankNeed 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.
> >
> > Thanx,
> > Anil Gupte
>
> I have a large number of small systems running a stripped down version of
> Debian, and they are all build using ext3. That way unless there is a
> really serious corruption they journal is replayed when the system reboots
> and it comes up cleanly. Many of these systems are in remote locations
> and I can count on one hand the number of times over a period of 2 and a half
> years when they have not come up automatically.
>
> David
>
>
I'm running a full Sarge installation that has recovered cleanly from
about six power losses.
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