Hi well I have tried to follow the spirit of the documentation at http://www.astlinux.org/node/30, and have I think now created a Unionfs with a USB flash drive. However I am unable to change the root password -so there is a good chance something has gone pearshaped, although I did not receive any warnings or errors.
Here is the process I followed (double quotes were not actually typed in) : 1. I dd'd Astlinux-0.6.1-via.img.gz onto the target (Neoware E140) 2. I inserted a blank USB drive into a USB socket and rebooted. 3. After rebooting I ran "genunion /dev/sda1". I entered "yes" to continue and the script output 'Filesystem created' 4. I then typed "yes" to 'create a new keydisk structure on your new unionfs partition'. 5. I then ran "sync" 6. I then rebooted. When the system came back up I logged in as root and tried to change the password and got the following error: 'passwd: cannot update password file /etc/shadow.' - Does anyone have any ideas what is going wrong here? - Has anyone actually tried to do what I have done and succeeded? For reference the mount state is as follows: rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) /dev/root on /oldroot type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda1 on /oldroot/cdrom type vfat (ro,fmask=002,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,ocharset=iso8859-1) none on / type tmpfs (ro) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /dev type tmpfs (rw) none on /var type tmpfs (rw) none on /sys type sysfs (rw) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) Thanks in advance Mart Martin Rogers wrote: > Hi > > I have been using various versions of Astlinux using genkd and a USB > flash disk with a good deal of success. > > I would like to resolve an issue whereby I am unable to update > modprobe.conf (in turn because MODOPTS settings do not work). I have > received advice from Darrick that I need to modify/create > /oldroot/mnt/asturw/etc/modprobe.conf in order to do this. > > However, I assume that as I have never run genunion I do not have > unionfs enabled. Of course it would be nice to change my root password too! > > Is it possible to enable unionfs but instead of using a second CF > partition, to use a USB flash disk instead? > > If so, how do I do this? > Do I still need to run genkd. > > Any help gratefully received > Mart > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
