Anil Gupte wrote:
BlankNeed help and advice. 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 aseparate partition.
Look at the installation manual, in particular: http://www.de.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s05.html.en http://www.de.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs02.html.en Also read the reminder of appendix B./etc has to be a subdirectory of / *and* /etc has to be writable on boot (/etc/mtab contains mount information). This renders your scenario very difficult, if not impossible to achieve.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Read-only_root_filesystem lists some suggestions for gentoo.I suggest, like another poster, to use a journaling fs like ext3 as your root partition.
IIRC /usr could be turned in a read-only partition, since it contains only static information and has to be mounted rw only on software upgrades.
HTH, Johannes PS: Don't attach unnecessary gifs to your mails.