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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. Thanx,
Anil Gupte
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