From: Jef Knoors (jknoors@zonnet.nl)
Date: Mon Jun 19 2000 - 16:17:45 CEST
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From: Michele Andreoli <m.andreoli@tin.it>
To: <mulinux@sunsite.auc.dk>
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: [muTech] Allocating ramdisks
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 09:34:53PM +0200, jef knoors nicely wrote:
>
> > Michele, that is a very good idea.
> > With the loader you could load any kind of addon, even an addon that is
not
> > listed in the base floppy.
>
> In theory, the best solution is to put setup/*.fun and setup/*.cnf
> in the addon archive.
>
What if.....
Can we use a little bit of the diskspace to store the *.cnf and *.fun ?
For example the bootsector, mount the disk, read the first sectors and get
the mountpoint.
I don't know if that is a possiblity, but it sounds good to me.
Jef
> But, now I expain you the problem: I can allocate dynamically the
> first unused ramdisk for a new addon, but cannot know WHERE to mount
> the ramdisk ( /usr, /usr/local, etc) without first unpacking.
>
> A workaround might be:
>
> 1. allocate the first unused ramdisk
> 2. unpack addon in this ramdisk
> 3. mount the ramdisk in a fixed (for example: /addon)
> 4. to include /addon/etc/info, extracting real mount point
> 5. remoute the ramdisk on *real* mount point
> 6. run the "prolog" command in the addon
>
> The boot process should be changed: in a very early stage,
> we have to ask:
>
> while
> echo "put an addon on the floppy drive or [a]bort"
> finish if [a]
> load_addon
> done
>
> and also to introduce a new command "load" or "addon", to load
> a new addon at-demand.
>
> Michele
> --
> I'd like to conclude with a positive statement, but I can't
> remember any. Would two negative ones do? -- Woody Allen
>
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