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Posted: Sep. 26 2006,19:51 QUOTE
I am building a diskless network client;
I would like to restrict changes to DSL after (re-mastering)
I've also discovered compact flash cards are limited to about 100,000 erase/write cycles before they fail.

Is it possible to get a read-only compact flash reader?
Or are there any other solutions?


Thanks in advance
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Posted: Sep. 27 2006,00:13 QUOTE
Use a frugal installation for your compact flash.
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Posted: Oct. 04 2006,04:29 QUOTE
I have a similar question.

I know that Frugal uses up less disk but it's still installed Read-Write.  I want to be able to pull the power plug and not worry about fsck failing on a reboot.  Can't I mount root as 'ro'?
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Posted: Oct. 04 2006,14:11 QUOTE
I thought the frugal cf type installation scripts would install it so that it would not be rw...

In any case, just remove the "frugal" boot/cheatcode from your bootloader, and /cdrom should now be mounted as RO.
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Posted: Oct. 05 2006,04:36 QUOTE
Thanks for the suggestion ^thehatsrule^ but removing the frugal switch didn't seem to help.  I am running off an HD install so maybe that's why.   Do I need to turn on initrd or something else to do with a ramdisk?  I know that there are certain system files that need to be writeable.

It looks like I may need to use tmpfs or upgrade to DSL 3.0 so I can use unionfs.  Does anyone have any experience with this?  I'll give this a try on friday.
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