Re: commit changes in trinux ?

[Alan Ridgeway]

Ingo

Thank you for making the matter a little more clear.
I still have a some questions on this issue.

If I change the files while they are on the RAM Drive,
that is fine as long as I do not have to reboot. Once I reboot,
I will have lost the changes and will need to go back and make them.
I agree that it is confusing, but not for the reason that was suggested.

As far as mounting the floppy, the files on the floppy are compressed
(Hence that's why they fit on a floppy), so I have no direct access to the
files for editing. So do I need to mount the floppy, uncompressed the files,
edit them and then recomposes and commit to the diskette ?

Again I am basing my understanding on this Micro dist. vs. the
Micro dist. "Linux Router Project" (LRP). In LRP, once you made a
change to a config, you reran the backup utility to repackage the
changed files and commit them to the diskette. This way if you had to
reboot,
you would not loose any changes. It was a very handy utility.

If this is not the case in Trinux, that's OK. I guess I am a little lost
on the steps needed to commit the change to the diskette.

Thanks
Alan




----- Original Message -----
From: "Ingo T. Storm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 1:28 AM
Subject: Re: commit changes in trinux ?


> >I'm sorry, I not sure if  I am being toyed with here.
>
> You're not.
>
> >If I unmount the floppy, then I would not have access to
> it right.
>
> Yes, but any changes you made to the files will only then be comitted to
it.
>
> If you want to make more changes, remount it, but don't forget to unmount
it
> again before the reboot.
>
> The thing that might be confusing you is that trinux does NOT access or
need
> the floppy once it has booted. So there is no use changing things in /etc,
> but you have to mount /mnt/floppy, make changes there and then reboot.
>
> Ingo
>
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