[Devil-linux-develop] devices and configs

[Roland P. <pa...@ta...>]

Hi,
I'm think of saving my configs on the harddisks instead of floppies, but there 
is one thing that is not possible with config on disks now: changing them 
easily prior to boot. Can't replace my harddisk as I do it with floppies...
I thought of this:
I'd add a boot parameter "config=<device>:<name of etc.tar.bz2>", i.e. 
"config=/dev/hda1:backup.tar.bz2".
The execution flow in linuxrc:

- device and filename given:
search that device for file, if not found, standard behavious (load first 
etc.tar.bz2)
- only device given:
device would be prepended to the list of devices in linuxrc and searched first 
- only filename
file would be searched on any device first, if not found, search for 
etc.tar.bz2 on all devices in standard order

that last two cases can be easily seperated: devicenames contain "/dev/", 
filenames *should* not...
Comments?
Roland
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