On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 11:17:20AM +0000, lux-integ wrote: > > great Idea. > But why does / have to be R/W? is this a requirement for udev (er systemd )? > > > In my heath-robinson setup I am not using an initrd. And everything except > Xorg works. > In this context, I am assuning 'Xorg' means xterm ? You said that the gimp works, and indeed my memory of slim is that it runs in X.
I don't use xterm, so I have no idea how it works. But if the _edited_ version of the settings that I suggested doesn't work, then I think you might be able to debug it on your regular system : build strace, open a console xterm, use that to open a foreground xterm. Provided you can open the second xterm, close it and repeat but using strace - and route the output to a file. Then read through the file to see what gets opened. After that, a custom init script to use a tmpfs, and links to it from /etc or wherever. To be honest, I would expect that writes would go to /var, or perhaps /usr/var. For the need to replug usb, I've no idea - I often saw the same thing on my ppc64 with a regular usb keyboard connected via a kvm : keyboard worked at the bootloader, but was silent at the login prompt until I cycled through the kvm positions. But, it you can't use an xterm at all in your r/o system, that is more of a showstopper. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
