Tom Diehl wrote:
Ok. So you are saying, basically, to use a ext2 filesystem natively to
boot off of and then just treat it like grub/Fedora normally treat
partitions? Or are you saying boot the flash, and then hop over to the
hard-drive? Problem with the latter; system has no hard-drive, and
adding one would increase its weight/cost/number of moving parts...
Design criteria is *very* strict on these points, and the
specification of "no hard-drive". :-)
If the former, the problem with that is we wanted to make it easy to
upgrade the flash image, rather than having to include bios upgrade
utility. Almost any system on the market right now can read/write vfat
(Mac/Linux/Windows/BeOS)...
I mean boot and run from the CF. It looks like a hard drive to Linux
anyway. I take it that you got a USB stick loaded with Linux to boot
and run. Is that image too large for the CF?
FWIW, We have FC4 running on CF here. It is on an ext3 partition. As far as the
OS is concerned it is just another disk. The only thing we do is mount
it noatime. They have been running for approx 6 months 24/7. I have kickstart
files that load the OS in about 15 minutes and then we use firewall builder
to setup rules.
Not *really* like what I am looking for. My rootfs is iso9660 (for a
variety of reasons). I originally wanted to have it as an iso file, and
mount it through loop, but that didn't seem to work very well. I ended
up just dd'ing it into its own partition, and FC seems much happier.
I missed the beginning of this thread so if this is not what your asking then
feel free to ignore this.
I would be interested in seeing the kickstart file, if you could share.
Steve
