Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] DL configuration

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

Quoting Serge Leschinsky <fi...@in...>:

> Bruce Smith wrote:
>>>> Another advantage of doing this is the size of the config file saved to
>>>> the floppy/usb would be a LOT smaller!
>>> Disadvantage of that exists also. Our boot logic based on the config file
>>> searching and parsing config files. If it was union/au fs based  
>>> solution I'm not
>>> sure we will able to keep the logic unchanged.
>>
>> 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 ...
>
> 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.
>

Actually the 2.6 kernel is pretty good in detecting which modules to  
load, so we may not need to worry about this anymore.

-- 

Regards
   Heiko Zuerker
   http://www.devil-linux.org



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