devil-linux-develop

Re: [Devil-linux-develop] everything on CD

[Heiko Z. <hz...@pr...>]

On 07/16/2003 09:38:20 AM Manu ESCAR wrote:
>Hi Heiko,
>
>long time i didn't build a new distro but all changes made looks very
>cool ... 1.0 seems very near :-)
>
>maybe it could be cool to choose which version (CD or Ram) to run from=

>the software file in /etc/sysconfig, in which you say NO for not
>unpacking a package, YES for unpacking everything to RAM and CD for
>unpacking only necessary files to Ram, using binaries from CD. In that=

>way one could have a very fine tuning way to configure DL.
>
>maybe it's completly Dumb as it require a complex way to choose which
>files to unpack to ram and which ones to use from CD ???

The idea is not bad, but I think it would produce a lot of overhead.
But it's worth keeping it in mind.

Heiko
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Re: [Devil-linux-develop] everything on CD

[Heiko Z. <hz...@pr...>]

Bruce,

I just saw you change cipe to run off the CD, how is that going?

cya
  Heiko
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Re: [Devil-linux-develop] everything on CD

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> I just saw you change cipe to run off the CD, how is that going?

I haven't installed the new CD on my firewall yet.
I'll keep you posted ...

 - BS

Re: [Devil-linux-develop] everything on CD

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> I just saw you change cipe to run off the CD, how is that going?

Works great!  I booted up my new DL CD, then I started a CIPE VPN while
watching the CD light on my DL box.  No CD access required to start the
VPN after boot-up!  :-)

 - BS

Re: [Devil-linux-develop] everything on CD

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> > I just saw you change cipe to run off the CD, how is that going?
> 
> ...  No CD access required to start the VPN after boot-up! 

Since CIPE worked as expected, would it be OK if I move the other
daemons to CD that I personally run?  That way I can watch to make 
sure they don't require the CD after boot too.

I'm currently running these daemons:   sshd  dhcpd  ntpd  syslog-ng
and the noip-updater

Looking around, I also think we should move:  iptables* gradm ldconfig
(the largest programs)

And a lot of other stuff in the bin directories.  Maybe it would be
easier to make a list of programs NOT to move?

 - BS

Re: [Devil-linux-develop] everything on CD

[Heiko Z. <hz...@pr...>]

On 07/21/2003 09:16:51 AM Bruce Smith wrote:
>> > I just saw you change cipe to run off the CD, how is that going?
>>
>> ...  No CD access required to start the VPN after boot-up!
>
>Since CIPE worked as expected, would it be OK if I move the other
>daemons to CD that I personally run?  That way I can watch to make
>sure they don't require the CD after boot too.
>
>I'm currently running these daemons:   sshd  dhcpd  ntpd  syslog-ng
>and the noip-updater
>
>Looking around, I also think we should move:  iptables* gradm ldconfig=

>(the largest programs)
>
>And a lot of other stuff in the bin directories.  Maybe it would be
>easier to make a list of programs NOT to move?

Yes go ahead and do it. I was actually thinking if I should rewrite the=

boot process this week.
So everything has to be on the CD and we mount the CD as /. I would the=
n
mount the shmfs on /var and /etc .

Heiko
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Re: [Devil-linux-develop] everything on CD

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> >Since CIPE worked as expected, would it be OK if I move the other
> >daemons to CD that I personally run?  That way I can watch to make
> >sure they don't require the CD after boot too.
> >
> >I'm currently running these daemons:   sshd  dhcpd  ntpd  syslog-ng
> >and the noip-updater
> >
> >Looking around, I also think we should move:  iptables* gradm ldconfig
> >(the largest programs)
> >
> >And a lot of other stuff in the bin directories.  Maybe it would be
> >easier to make a list of programs NOT to move?
> 
> Yes go ahead and do it. 

OK, I moved those programs, except for "ldconfig" which I couldn't find
easily.  (I couldn't find /bin/bash easily either.  I'll dig harder.)

I also moved a whole bunch of other programs (that were not packages) 
to CD (see CHANGES).  Hope I didn't get too carried away!   :-) 

Is it OK to move all the optional packages to CD next? 
(and make them no longer packages)

> I was actually thinking if I should rewrite the
> boot process this week.
> So everything has to be on the CD and we mount the CD as /. I would then
> mount the shmfs on /var and /etc .

That sounds like a good idea.

It might be a good idea to have a bin directory in shmfs in the front of
$PATH so people could copy some programs to memory if they wanted to.

It also might be cool to do something similar for USB, so some programs
could be cached there.

 - BS