Darrick Hartman wrote: > <495a7ee6.5070...@mhr.me.uk> > <p06240808c58031502...@[192.168.2.210]> <495aa4ff.3090...@mhr.me.uk> > Message-ID: <38e67be333b7b7cf9496c657348be...@localhost> > X-Sender: dhart...@djhsolutions.com > Received: from mke-66-97-114-83.milwpc.com [66.97.114.83] with HTTP/1.1 > (POST); > Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:46:55 -0600 > User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.1 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:47:27 +0000, Martin Rogers > <fromastlinux-us...@mhr.me.uk> wrote: >> >> Michael Keuter wrote: >>>> Michael Keuter wrote: >>>>>> Since upgrading to 0.6.2, partitioning my flash disk and running >>>>>> genunion I am now not only able to make ordinary configuration >> changes >>>>>> sticky but the root password too. >>>>>> >>>>>> The trouble is however that if your mobo only supports a single hard >>>>>> disk channel, having multiple partitions does not really help. If >> the rw >>>>>> partition wears out it might as well all be on the same partition >>>> >> anyway, as the whole flash module will need changing. >>>> > >>>> > You have still the possiblity to use an extra USB-Stick for the >>>> > Keydisk (genkd script). >>>> I was not aware that it was possible to make the root password sticky >>>> using genkd, perhaps I missed something. I understood this needed >>>> genunion. Genunion on a USB-stick was a non starter for me - the >>>> USB-stick could not be detected at boot-up. Possibly a timing issue. >>> No that's the wrong way. Before running genunion >>> run genkd /dev/sdÅ (your USB-Stick). >>> Check with "fdisk -l". Reboot then. >>> Now run genunion and at the second question say "NO". Reboot again. >>> >>> http://www.astlinux.org/node/30 >>> >> Michael, thanks for your post. I did try the above, on more than one >> occasion and with two different platforms, but after booting no >> configuration was sticky. I had an error on bootup to do with detecting >> the USB Stick. This was using the 0.6.1 VIA image. >> >> I then reverted to using a second on-board partition and got everything >> working nicely, except for concerns about extending the life of the disk. > > Honestly, I think this is all blown out of proportion. Recent flash has > good built in wear leveling. Assuming you use a large enough disk, even if > you did have problems where portions of the disk were no longer writable, > the only affect should be the amount of free space on the device. The > amount of data that's written to the CF is fairly small. If you're super > paranoid, use a 4GB card and swap it out proactively in a few years.
If you consider this as being commercially viable then we are looking at different business models. Mart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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 pay...@krisk.org.
