Frugal and KNOPPIX filesystemForum: USB booting Topic: Frugal and KNOPPIX filesystem started by: ghost Posted by ghost on May 11 2005,13:34
I'm new to DSL but what I have seen so far - cool!!Still I have a problem: I made a frugal Install to hda1. Everything is working fine-so far... On the machine I need a special device driver which normally installs in /usr/local/lib. As I understand all *.tar.gz archives that reside in the "restore-drive" (hda1 in my case) are extracted at boot time. So I packed the driver into (let's say) driver.tar.gz. When booting the archive doesn't extract because /usr/local (actually the whole KNOPPIX-fs) is read-only. Can I change that? I Know ir is a RAMDISK "fake" filesystem but that doesn't mean it has to be read-only (or does it?) Thanks for yout help! Posted by ghost on May 11 2005,15:20
and another thing - could be related to that problem:/dev/hda1 gets mounted in /cdrom. No entry in the fstab for that, but in /etc/mtab: /dev/hda1 /cdrom ext2 rw 0 0 I can't even umount the darn /dev/hda1 (device is busy) I'm lost here... Posted by cbagger01 on May 11 2005,23:43
This is normal behavior for a frugal install.If you want your driver.tar.gz to be able to add files to /usr/local Then rename the file into driver.dsl When the dsl installer sees the *.dsl extension, it will create a writable /usr filesystem and then extract the files into it. |