Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] DL configuration

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

> > Right, we would have to change the boot process to mount /etc from CDROM
> > and then mount the unionfs on top of that and untar the changes there.  
> :-) Which comes first the chicken or the egg?
> To be able to mount CDROM we have to find out the config file and load modules
> from /etc/sysconfi/config:INITRD_MODULES ...

Right, that will be a problem with anything other than a standard IDE
CDROM drive.

> Another way is to do something like I did in install-on-hdd, i.e. load all
> modules, but include into initrd/ramfs only really necessary.
> 
> Bruce, don't take me wrong, I like the idea. I only try to define the points we
> should discuss and modify.

It's a good point.

Can we load the config directory changes before the underlying /etc
directory on the CD?  That would let us read sysconfig/config ...

 - BS