Re: [Devil-linux-develop] initrd / zisofs

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Bruce Smith wrote:

>>>Does save-config work OK if the pendrive is zisofs?
>>>
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>>It should.
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>
>I don't know anything about "zisofs", but if it's anything like 
>ISO9660 (the standard for CDROM's), then there may be a problem.
>You can't write to ISO9660 filesystems, no matter if they are
>on read-write media or not.
>
>If that's the case, then the pendrive would have to be partitioned
>with a second non-zisofs partition to save the config to.
>  
>
You're correct.
But it works the following way:
I format the USB stick with FAT16, transfer the MBR and syslinux bootloader.
Then I copy a bunch of files to the root of the stick (license, 
DEVIL-LINUX file to recognize the correct partition) and I copy the file 
bootcd.iso.
Then I (loop) mount the iso image.

The main disadvantage is that we can't unmount the initrd (since we have 
open file), but we'll probably find a way around this too.

cya
   Heiko