Re: commit changes in trinux ?

[Ingo T. Storm]

Hi,

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

That's what mailing lists are for...

> 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 ?

The config files are NOT compressed. Edit them on (a copy of;-) the floppy,
reboot, see what happens.

> 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.

Yip, but the LRP cannot be extended as easily. At least not in my view. I
have a RH52 box with HD in my office where I compile and tgz lots of tools
(e.g. setiathome;-) packages to run on Trinux. The Trinux boxes grab the
packages (2 MB tgz'ed total) via wget.

> 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.

There's actually three different levels of changes:

1. Changing stuff on the initial ramdisk is quite compilcated (unpock ram
disk in loop fs, change, make new rd, put on floppy). I once tried and gave
up;-)

2.Changing stuff in the additional packages on the floppy (e.g. net.tgz
IIRC) is easy: copy to disk, untar, change, tar, back to disk.

3. Changing the config files is dead easy: mount floppy, cd /mnt/floppy/init
(or etc). vi your file, save it, unmount and boot.

Good luck,

Ingo


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